Elon Musk appears to offer $1 million bounty to 'convict' those responsible for Twitter 'botnets'
Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty if the source of"botnets" purportedly targeting reputation scores could be identified after Twitter made some of its algorithms open-source Friday. , Steven Tey shared his analysis of the information, concluding that Twitter Blue are boosted in the algorithm.He added that the algorithm was prone to creating"negative feedback loops" that would reduce a user's"reputation score.
A botnet refers to a group of computers that have been infected with malware and are being controlled by a single actor,The user said by taking control of several accounts, botnets were able to suppress certain accounts by mass blocking, unfollowing, and reporting them.The user suggested to Musk that only the muting, blocking, and reporting activity of verified accounts should count towards a"reputation score."that Twitter's algorithm specifically labels if Musk wrote a tweet.
Musk is leaning further into plans to increase the amplification of tweets from verified accounts, in a bid to boost subscriptions to Twitter Blue and revenues."Legacy verified accounts," those verified by Twitter before Musk's takeover for free largely on the basis of noteworthiness,
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