Twitter has a problem, a big problem, with spam. And that after completing the purchase, Elon Musk declared that he was going to fight it tooth and nail, and history has made it clear to us that this man never lies… the fact is that in the short year and a half that the social network has been under its review, it is not just that the volume of spam has not decreased, but that it has increased substantially, both in quantity and in the means by which it is disseminated.

The clearest example of this can be found in bots who fall first with their cleanup and upgrade plans, and yet they continue to roam free on Twitter. On the other hand, the restrictions imposed by the social network negatively affected bots that were very useful to users because they used free public APIs to retrieve and provide information to users. A blow that, let’s remember, also hit researchers.

According to Musk, paying for verified was also supposed to put an end to spamand by the way also with identity theft. A seamless plan, as was clear from the start, with massive impersonations and no positive impact on spam reduction. Of course, if one thing is clear, it’s that the measures taken by Twitter to fight spam have so far been useless, which we can relate to the fact that the reason for its existence was probably not really to fight spam, but rather to improve the monetization of the service.

Well, it seems that we will find a new plan in the same vein, and this is Twitter allows you to prevent the publication of links in replies to our publications, as we can see in the tweet about this paragraph. As you can see, this modification will be done in the configuration section of the messages we publish, so we understand that it can be applied independently of each message, although we have read that it can also be applied at the account level.

Will this measure help stop spam? Well, the truth is, I’m not very optimistic, and the vast majority of the spam I get on Twitter, and I know that’s the case with many other users, It doesn’t come through the links in the answersbut by the “likes” and reactions they show on their account bios, as well as the platform’s advertising, which has gotten significantly worse over the past year and a half.

With an aggravating factor, and that is the posting of links in the answers It is a common tool for denying false information.so we can bet that once this feature is rolled out, the first to use it will be accounts dedicated to spreading hoaxes to make them difficult to identify.