Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world 001100 010010 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1y ago

So I tried signing up for Twitter to do a little trolling there...

I thought: Okay I'll do 15 of these and start spamming twitter.

After I did those... it says I failed for some reason... Am I a bot? I'm starting to doubt if I'm human... 🤔

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“To sign up, please complete this simple route problem: there are seven bridges in Königsberg…”
- Finally my algorithms for planar graphs CS lecture payed off! :D
Knowing companies like Twitter they probably had some Minority Report style psychological profile on you from their intrusive data collection and predicted you were there to troll.
- This is some high level " Person of Interest" shit. If you don't know, check out this TV show called persons of interest.
  
  That is so boring to watch. I couldn't get past the first season. Something like the Snowden movie probably gets the point across without all the cop/criminal drama.
- Lol I've never even used twitter before.
  
  You have used the internet though.
  
  Have you ever used a website with a “share on twitter” button?
  
  Facebook makes shadow profiles of people who aren't on the site. Twitter could very well be doing the same
1 of 15????

And they force the login to see the posts?

Is this a Speedrun on how to have the highest bounce rate on a web page?
- Insane 😆 Is Elon actually trying to tank Twitter completely? I don't understand it.
  
  Saudis couldn't buy it directly
So what you're saying is that Twitter successfully kept out a bad actor.

It's a shame that most of the users they have left are also in that category, but hey, they seem to be working on it.
- This makes no sense. It was testing for humans, not for non-trolling humans. The test failed.
  
  Also, trolling isn't necessarily bad acting. Trolling is not abuse.
- Is it immoral to troll a platform that is owned by an evil corporation?
  
  You trolling the platform, or the users?
That username says "yes"
This feels like some kind of fever dream.
And at the end of it, they'll just ask you for your phone number anyway
relevant video
Are you using a VPN? Sometimes VPN ips are blacklisted and you'd get difficult captchas
- No, I'm using my real IP.
  
  nmap 001100010010
Happened to me too. I'd just liked 2 different tweets in quick succession.

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