[latchkey]

I recently had a fake account follow me where they replaced the letter L with an I in the user name. Whatever font Twitter website uses, makes it impossible to visually see the difference. The fake account looks 100% the same as the real, even has thousands of 'followers'. I reported it, and it is still up.

Original: https://twitter.com/WildcatTrader

Fake: https://twitter.com/WiidcatTrader

It is unreal to me that the platform hasn't developed a way to automatically deal with fake accounts like this. Just check to see if the profile image is the same!?

[labrador]

I had a fake Yann LeCun (Meta's AI chief) follow me. It looked and read like the real thing. I was happy about it for a couple of days until I realized it was fake. It fooled a lot of people. I didn't report it because obviously Musk doesn't care.

[latchkey]

I can't imagine working for Twitter, in a position to fix things like this, and having to listen to Musk tell me to 'stay the course'. I know that everyone has a price, so their salary must be insanely good.

[MBCook]

I suspect that only the true believers are left. There were _so_ many actions and warning signs over the last year I can’t imagine anyone thinking it was a good/stable place to work unless they really liked Musk.

[greesil]

I think there's still a bunch of people who have an audience and don't really care about the drama. They're there not to engage, or sell anything, but just to use it as a broadcast medium. But yes why would I ever talk to anyone there? I can just use nitter to read my neets and call it good.

Edit: oh fuck nitter is gone, arrrgh

[refulgentis]

They meant twitter employees, not users

[MBCook]

Right, that was what I meant.

For creators, I’ve heard other services offer much more useful interaction per follower, which would mean either Twitter followers often aren’t shown posts of a large cube of followers don’t care (likely bots).

I don’t think Musks behavior and obvious preferences should be ignored. But even without that it sounds like it’s dead at the core and more people figure it out every day.

[hackerlight]

There's many nitter mirrors still up

[ews]

From what I know, lots of people with visas (L1/H1B) are stuck in twitter hell.

[labrador]

I can't imagine the hell it must be to be stuck this way at X. Can you imagine being the engineer that gets the email "Elon wants Séamas O’Reilly suspended because he said some rude things about X" and you happen to be Irish?

Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/02/12/journali...

[latchkey]

That makes more sense than the Musk true believers theory.

I mean, I get it, if you work at spacex, then that's one thing... you're building rockets and all.

[lostlogin]

I laughed, this is a new one.

How many dollars would it take you to work for Musk?

How many dollars would it take if it involved space rockets?

[techdragon]

Dunno how “new” it is… I’ve definitely got a big price difference and I’m pretty sure others will to…

Twitter, Tesla, Neuralink, Boring… all the non space Musk corps…. Quarter million if I don’t have to move from Australia, half million to a million depending on where I was going if it requires moving to the USA… I’d do it… but I’d basically have the resignation letter already drafted from day one…

For the rockets… I’d probably be happy with their normal pay offer… not being a US citizen basically makes it impossible for me to apply for a job with SpaceX so I’d take what I could get lol… and since Elon is clearly just glued to his phone tweeting… it’s not going to be the Elon show… Gwynne Shotwell is running the company like a level headed and competent management executive, the place is full of competent engineers who seem like pretty well adjusted people when they talk about their experiences after leaving, and they all seem to leave for normal reasons…

[canadiantim]

I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure Musk isn't personally going through each report to vet them

[ethanbond]

Do you think that's what's being proposed?

Was the fact this was not as significant an issue due to Dorsey and then Agrawal being really good moderators as individuals?

Or do you think maybe business leaders are accountable for the behavior of the system beneath them, especially when they personally overhauled exactly the system in question?

[hackerlight]

Well, he fired the entire moderation team, and he made it no longer against ToS to post overt racism.

Then he made it against the rules to say "cis".

All of this was super important for the square speech town freedom thing, you wouldn't understand.

[bentley]

> Whatever font Twitter website uses, makes it impossible to visually see the difference.

Doesn’t it? When I view the profiles you listed (before that horrible login wall pops up), the ‘I’ is of the crossbar variety, and the ‘l’ has a finial, making the characters visibly different. In fact, I recall that Twitter started using that font (which also visually distinguishes 0 and O) after the Musk takeover as an anti‐spoofing measure. Spoofed usernames were completely impossible to detect before the font was changed.

[latchkey]

Depends on your system/browser font?

[bentley]

Wouldn’t think so, given the intent. Shows up for me on both desktop and mobile. Do you have any local font overrides?

Looks like the change happened just over a year ago:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23572746/twitter-changed-...

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-new-font-fights-imperso...

[NetOpWibby]

Twitter Support doesn't care about legit scams and bots but will absolutely enforce a mistaken ban.