Ripple CEO Flags Twitter BOTs Issue; Will This Help Elon Musk?

Ashish Kumar
October 4, 2022
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Twitter Bot causing issue for Ripple CEO?

Meanwhile, another major crypto individual seems to be joining the battle against Twitter BOTs/ scam accounts. In the latest tweet, Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple flagged the problems faced just because of BOTs running on the social media platform.

Ripple CEO mentioned that it is embarrassing when one can’t distinguish between a real profile and a fake one. He added that there are many verified scam accounts running on Twitter. These scam accounts are using Garlinghouse, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Co founder, and Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance images for doing the crypto tweets.

Garlinghouse added that it is been a long time since these scammy replies are running on Twitter. However, Ripple’s CEO is still waiting for some sort of action, while a huge number of scammy accounts are taking advantage of the platform.

However, Ripple CEO also shared the received email from Twitter. It mentions that the reported account does not show any violation of their identity policy.

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Scammy accounts creating chaos

These scammy crypto accounts and Twitter BOT replies were flagged by some crypto analysts and experts. These accounts were pretending to be Binance CEOs and spamming Twitter threads. While Garlinghhouse’s image and name are being used to spread fake XRP token giveaways.

Twitter is already facing Elon Musk’s Twitter BOT related allegations in court. The world’s richest man claims that the social media network gave inaccurate Twitter BOT data. It mentions that there is a huge number of fake accounts running on the platform than the company assesses.

Meanwhile, the social media giant claims that Musk’s own data scientists are not able able to back these allegations.

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Ashish believes in Decentralisation and has a keen interest in evolving Blockchain technology, Cryptocurrency ecosystem, and NFTs. He aims to create awareness around the growing Crypto industry through his writings and analysis. When he is not writing, he is playing video games, watching some thriller movie, or is out for some outdoor sports. Reach me at [email protected]
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