{"id":260245,"date":"2018-05-16T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=260245"},"modified":"2018-05-16T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T10:51:17","slug":"twitter-altering-algorithm-to-hide-bad-tweets-and-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/260245-twitter-altering-algorithm-to-hide-bad-tweets-and-trolls.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter altering algorithm to hide bad tweets and trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is tweaking its algorithms to respond to the issue of bot replies being the first thing users see in the reply threads of celebrity tweets, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/15\/twitter-algorithm-changes-will-hide-more-bad-tweets-and-trolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts of users like Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin see such activity, with fake accounts responding to their tweets claiming to be giving away free Ethereum tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Other bot accounts then comment on the spam tweet, pushing it up the rankings so that it is the first thing you see when you click &#8220;Show more replies&#8221; on one of Musk or Buterin&#8217;s tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin has even gone so far as to change his display name on Twitter to state that he is not giving away free tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s changes to its algorithm will change the way tweets are ranked in conversations, ranking them on factors such as\u00a0the number of accounts registered to a user, and if the tweet prompted people to block the accounts, and IP address.<\/p>\n<p>When a tweet is determined likely to be bad it won&#8217;t be deleted, but it will be pushed down the order of the comment thread.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said abuse reports were down 8% in conversations where its new feature was being tested.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/259287-twitter-testing-encrypted-messaging-feature.html\">Twitter testing encrypted messaging feature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is tweaking its algorithms in response to bot replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[11373,405,45492],"class_list":["post-260245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-elon-musk","tag-twitter","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260323,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260245\/revisions\/260323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}