[nwellinghoff]

This is pretty easy to work around via vpns etc. Guess its another barrier…for now. But it forces escalating tactics by the other side to appear legit. So if ppl come to trust the “source” information. It might actually end up worse in the long run as the sources are all spoofed. Would need a more advanced system using signatures and real life verification to actually know a source. Similar to a ca with all of its drawbacks. Point being, this move is kind of a wash.

[TZubiri]

But it was not expected, it's a one trick pony, but it worked. There's a lot of accounts that were passing as being from one country, and they ended up being some content farmer from a third world country with a gdp per capita of 2000$.

It was in part fueled by Twitter's idea of paying content creators, which made the whole thing an engagement bait party, it gave an economic incentive to countries with cheap and idle workforces to work 9 to 5 on posting whatever got likes without even understanding it, even it was political.

[dvngnt_]

I believe it also shows which country's app store the user downloaded from which might be harder

[lisbbb]

There will just be vpns with exit nodes in favorable locales. Yaaaaawnn

[wkat4242]

Yup. It's a temporary thing, now all the scammers will just jump to vpn.

Or botnets to get residential IPs

[cyanydeez]

So, do nothing eh? Places like somethingawful demonstrated that even a token fee toll to trolls was enough.

Forcing these orgs to pay foe their propaganda is significant.

And once theyre in vpns, those are fewer IPs to ban.

[wkat4242]

No I think we need to do more, not nothing. This was an interesting step to highlight the problem.

I think Twitter is beyond help though. It's just another gab now. But it would be interesting for other socials.

[cyanydeez]

Well, itsnot isolated to twitler. Whoever there thought this was going to add value to the product is either delusional or knew exactly how bad it is.

Go to reddit and sort by top/hourly and youll find plenty.