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Ohhh My God 😂

I took this screenshot before the new changes implemented!

So right now @dwr.eth has 378K followers!
Minus 145,000 followers is crazy 😫🤣

This means more 27% of his followers were bots 
And if we say we got 1M over all warpcast users, this means 14% of the warpcast users are bots !

A reminder: human-generated content is not always useful; AI-generated content can be useful!

The usefulness of content is relative to each person. This means reasonable people will differ on classification.

This is what makes spam filtering hard.

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.

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

Each of these accounts have 0 to 2 followers

spammy if you ask me

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email