Twitter has suspended the account of the favored memecoin-linked synthetic intelligence-powered bot “Clarify This Bob” after Elon Musk alleged it was a “rip-off crypto account.”

Musk alleged the account was a rip-off in a tweet on June 18 in areply to the bot, the account was seemingly suspended quickly after.

The Clarify This Bob account reportedly amassed over 400,000 followers earlier than its suspension. The bot was created by Prabhu Biswal from India and used OpenAI’s GPT-4 mannequin to grasp and supply responses to tweets by those that tagged the account.

The undertaking was additionally linked to the ERC-20 memecoin Bob Token (BOB) that was launched in April 2023. The suspension despatched the worth of BOB down over 30% according to CoinGecko.

The suspension is a U-turn on Musk’s earlier impression of the bot, who tweeted “I really like Bob” in response to one among its tweets on April 20, a tweet which additionally prominently options on the undertaking’s website.

Twitter has not taken motion in opposition to the account for Bob Token, nonetheless. The undertaking’s workforce humorously responded to the information of the suspension, sharing a meme of Musk monitoring a distraught “Bob” in a jail.

Observers consider Musk is of the view that Clarify This Bob is getting used as a marketing tactic to prop up BOB’s price.

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For the reason that suspension, the hashtag “FREEBOB” has circulated on Crypto Twitter. Most observers take the view that BOB isn’t a scam coin and the suspension is unwarranted because the launch of the token was “honest” along with BOB being “totally decentralized” with a 0% tax mechanism.

One other claimed the workforce didn’t present themselves with any tokens or airdrops previous to the Bob Token launch in April.

Cointelegraph contacted Biswal and Twitter for remark however didn’t obtain a direct response.

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