thomas

Thanks to all my followers!

This is my second time receiving this email, a year apart — the first was on the parabolic way to 120K followers, before the great bot purge (but we don’t talk about that)

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

A few thoughts

1. Spammy accounts can be (and more often than not are) humans, they are not necessarily "bots", i.e. run by software

2. When people find bots useful, we call them "AI agents" :)

3. Twitter used to regularly purge followers like this from their UI; Instagram still does this today. Meta estimates that 10%+ of their users are bots, read it in their 10-K

4. There are likely mistakes in both the spammy user classification and users that are actually spammy but have yet to be classified.

5. I don't think anyone is/was fooled that follower accounts on any public social network—web2 or web3—are all real people. So better to adjust to what we think is the best known proxy for realistic and keep making progress on other stuff.

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x2d8bf05b

There was a mass purge of spammy accounts two months ago, many OGs lost 30-40% of their “followers” overnight

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you know, i can see why you'd take that seriously but i was actually going along with your "but we don't talk about that" quip. 😂😂😂

There was a mass purge of spammy accounts two months ago, many OGs lost 30-40% of their “followers” overnight

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xc216a2fd