| Devil's advocate; 1) Number of bad actors will always be several orders of magnitude more than number of people twitter can appoint to the topic to. For example: this is the first time I'm hearing instagram-lost-password bots. There should be bots for every topic you haven't even heard about. 2) Increasing the "police" will increase the false-positives. Bots are an inconvenience, but undeserved punishment is a reason to leave the platform. Multiply this by number of connections that user has. 3) You'll inevitably hire one person who will police for fun, trolling, personal gain or religious/political/philosophical agenda for every N number of people you can hire to "police". 4) Bad actors have a lot of time, sometimes capable and rarely even well organized. They create sophisticated tools to mimic real users to "warm up" bot accounts. 5) Bad actors could be, and quite often are, from 3rd world countries. It is expensive for twitter to hire good engineers to fight them, but for bad actors, several dollars per hour could be the best thing they can do with their life at the moment. |