This is interesting because I have experienced something similar on Twitter. If you mention anything about drugs or psychedelics you quickly get bots replying telling you to message them or some other user to get drugs. I get annoyed at all auto-reply keyword bots but one might think that ones advertising illegal services might be stopped, and yet they persist.
Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover, but it's still terrible.
Another example (bots presumably paid for by hedge funds): any post about GameStop on Twitter will trigger AMC and other ticker bots to spam the comments under that post/Tweet. Essentially disabling comments for any GameStop related Tweet.
> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover,
This has not been my experience. I locked my account a month or so ago but up to then I was reliably getting two sexbot follows a day (and there's a pile of follow requests in my notifications), and there's an awful lot of accounts out there that want to tell me about something of theirs in their bio.
(And it's kind of interesting that they haven't done anything about those, but pulled out all the stops to protect the identity of that Texas fascist).
> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover
My experience has been that the problem has so obviously gotten worse it is surprising to me that anyone would say otherwise. I used to get bot interactions maybe once a month and now I get them multiple times per day. Every post I make gets random bot likes, I get bot follows constantly, and multiple times per week I get the big at tweet which is just a tweet full of mentions which is so obviously a bot I can’t believe that behavior doesn’t get fixed.
