A new report reveals that a huge amount of Web3 activity is significantly made of hordes of bots. Web3 is a term for new technologies built on the blockchain that are hyped to be the future of the internet — but most are overwhelmed with bot activity.
Twitter accidentally verified an account pretending to be the novelist Cormac McCarthy, later removing the verification after McCarthy’s agent confirmed that the account did not in fact belong to the author of books such as The Road and All the Pretty Horses.
The New York Times published an article, Wednesday, raising questions over the wildly different estimates of fake users on the Facebook platform published by Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama lost over 2 million followers on Twitter during the platform’s purge of “suspicious” accounts this week, while other celebrities lost hundreds of thousands.
Twitter will purge “tens of millions” of “suspicious” accounts on Thursday, according to a report.
