Elon Musk’s newest salvo in his struggle in opposition to crypto spam bots on Twitter seems to have made an actual influence, with the crypto neighborhood reporting an enormous discount within the variety of bots responding to their posts. 

In a Dec. 11 post, the Twitter CEO hinted that “bots are in for a shock tomorrow” and later defined that they’ve discovered a small variety of individuals behind numerous bot/troll accounts and the platform will probably be shutting down IP addresses of “identified dangerous actors.”

He then adopted up by explaining that while scammers might try different strategies to avoid the IP tackle block, Twitter will probably be “shutting them down as quickly as they present up.”

Shibetoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of Billy Markus, co-creator of meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE), instructed Musk in a Dec. 11 post, “I made a take a look at publish and as an alternative of seeing 50 bot replies I solely noticed one a lot progress, very hype.”

Different customers additionally went to check Musk’s newest modifications. PlanB, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and investor, posted a chart to see what number of bots would reply. On the time of writing, no responses from bots had proven up within the feedback. 

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin additionally famous that whereas “Twitter *appears* to be marginally higher to make use of currently,” he couldn’t inform if there had been a discount in bots on account of Musk.

“No thought the best way to separate aside stuff Elon did vs crypto-winter vs my mind imagining modifications that are not really there,” he stated.

Some have reported that the bot responses nonetheless present up on posts, however are in a short time eliminated by the platform. 

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Twitter spam and rip-off bots have been a plague on the platform and had been seen by Musk as considered one of his top priorities for Twitter after taking the helm in October.

In his newest publish, Musk additionally hinted that the platform will probably be aiming to take authorized motion in opposition to scammers on Twitter sooner or later, although didn’t provide any extra particulars.

“Twitter can even be transferring to prosecute scammers wherever on Earth,” he stated.