When Musk took over Twitter in October, he made removing the bots one of his top priorities
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Elon Musk's latest shot against crypto spam bots on Twitter seems to have worked really well, as the crypto community is reporting a huge reduction in spam bot activity on their tweets.
On December 11, Elon tweeted that spam bots were in for a surprise the next day and went on to explain that one of the measures Twitter would take is shut down the IP addresses of known bad actors, who comprise a small number of people but run a large number of bot accounts.
In a recent tweet, he further said that Twitter would be taking legal action against the scammers on Twitter. "Twitter will also be moving to prosecute scammers anywhere on Earth," he tweeted.
PlanB, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and investor, tweeted a chart related to Bitcoin to check the number of crypto spam bots in the replies. To his surprise, even hours after the tweet was made, there was no spam bot activity under it.
Billy Markus, the co-creator of Dogecoin (DOGE), who goes by the pseudonym Shibetoshi Nakamoto on Twitter, tweeted to Musk on December 11 that he made a test post to check the bot activity on his post, and instead of seeing 50 bot tweets, he only saw one.