How Fancy Text Helps Me Identify Spam
Here's a simple way to weed out these bots and clowns.
Like millions of people, I've been off Twitter for months now. I now spend much of the time that I used to spend tweeting and reading tweets on a different social network: LinkedIn. I suspect that I'm hardly alone here.
A second-order effect of my switch has been increased spam. If I'm more active on LinkedIn, bots and bad actors see me as a bigger target for their inane pitches, phishing schemes, and the like. Making matters worse, AI makes it even easier for spammers to do their thing.
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