With this new message uncovered in the app’s back-end code, it appears that Twitter feels like it can test ‘Human-ness’.
As seen in this notification, discovered by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Twitter is working on a new process that appears to restrict users from using certain elements of the app until they can prove that they’re actually human – ‘by spending time engaging with your timeline and connecting with others.’
If you pass the human test, your tweet visibility will improve, and you’ll have full access to its DM capabilities.
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You’d think Twitter wouldn’t be able to provide such information because doing so would expose it to fraudsters. However, there isn’t much a real person can accomplish that a bot can’t. A bot account may be programmed to follow/unfollow individuals, retweet others, and post tweets.
It appears that pinpointing bot activity would be challenging – but new Twitter CEO Elon Musk is committed to addressing the bot problem in the app, which is so terrible that Musk attempted to terminate his Twitter takeover agreement outright at one point owing to the platform being littered with bot accounts.
Musk’s legal team submitted a motion in August claiming that 27% of Twitter’s mDAU figure – or slightly more than 64 million users – were bots, while just 7% of genuine, human Twitter users saw the majority of its adverts.
