> Youtube and Facebook both have similar problems. There is survivalship bias at play here, you do see the bots that manage to get past the spam protection, but never see the ones that don't. For all you know, Twitter could be blocking 99% of the spam.
If you spend 5 seconds on YouTube and Facebook and compare that to Twitter, you'll see a massive difference.
The spam bots on Twitter are incredibly unsophisticated. It's literally bots with the same profile picture and name as the person they're trying to spam.
On the other hand, YouTube spam bots are actually incredibly sophisticated. They're using GPT-3 or some language model to generate text and reply to each other. Like, sometimes I'll read a comment and not be sure if it was a spam bot or not.
Obviously YMMV but in 2021, every tech video I commented on would get these replies, which all had 18+ profile pictures. Clicking their profile every account had the exact same "playlist" with a porn site ad inside, and the channel header had the exact same website link. I kept getting these for months.
If you spend 5 seconds on YouTube and Facebook and compare that to Twitter, you'll see a massive difference.
The spam bots on Twitter are incredibly unsophisticated. It's literally bots with the same profile picture and name as the person they're trying to spam.
On the other hand, YouTube spam bots are actually incredibly sophisticated. They're using GPT-3 or some language model to generate text and reply to each other. Like, sometimes I'll read a comment and not be sure if it was a spam bot or not.
Twitter is leagues behind w/ their spam filters.