Twitter is taking 'extreme measures' to tackle its bot problem. It should verify everyone instead.
, you might have been lucky enough — or unlucky, depending on your perspective — to have been gifted one. After a chaotic few days that saw Twitter, the company came out on Tuesday and said it had to make that decision, in part, because of a longstanding problem: pesky bots.
The only real explanation it could offer to users blindsided by the suddenness of the decision to limit Twitter usage was that"any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection." Tackling some of the bot issues outlined by Twitter — such as"scraping people's public Twitter data" to build
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