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Elon Musk, who has vowed to rid Twitter of bots and scam accounts, has suspended Indian developer Prabhu Biswal’s popular bot account. Biswal ran a Twitter account \u2018Explain This Bob’, which was linked to a popular memecoin, BOB. The account was integrated with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, that understood and responded to tweets with a brief explanation when tagged in the replies to the original tweet. Musk, reportedly, is of the belief that this account was manipulating the prices of BOB.<\/p>\n
Musk, on June 18, tweeted that the \u2018Explain This Bob’ account \u201csure looks like a scam crypto account<\/a>,\u201d and the handle was suspended from the micro-blogging site soon after.<\/p>\n This sure looks like a scam crypto account. If so, it will be suspended.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Followed by over 4,00,000 people before its suspension, the \u2018Explain This Bob’ Twitter bot had jumped into the limelight in April after Musk himself had reacted to a tweet from @ExplainThisBob saying, \u201cI love Bob\u201d.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, BOB is trading at $0.00001942 (roughly Rs. 0.0016) as per CoinMarketCap<\/a>.<\/p>\n Created in April this year on the Ethereum blockchain<\/a>, the BOB coin has a maximum circulating supply of 690 billion and it currently has a fully diluted market cap of $13.3 million (roughly Rs. 109 crore).<\/p>\n Now that Musk<\/a> has flagged the \u2018Explain This Bob’ account, the memecoin has recorded a 30 percent drop in its value over the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n In recent hours, #FreeBob has been circulating on Twitter<\/a>, urging Musk to reinstate the suspended Twitter bot.<\/p>\n #FREEBOB<\/a> $BOB<\/a> A coin that’s listed on 22 different markets with near 40 million volume is NOT a scam. In April Elon even said \u201cI love Bob\u201d before continuing to interact for months on end pic.twitter.com\/yDZar6oQAi<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \u0e3fITCOIN:hamsa:TRAPP\u039eR (@BITCOINTRAPPER) June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n As of now, Biswal has not responded to Twitter’s suspension.<\/p>\n Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,61,900 crore) last year. As part of his main agendas on revamping Twitter, Musk promised users that he would rid the platform of crypto-related scam bot accounts.<\/p>\n Crypto scammers have been flocking Twitter to get a hold of unsuspecting victims and their activities have only risen in recent times.<\/p>\n Last year in May, a report<\/a> by crypto intelligence firm LunarCrash said that scam activities on Twitter had spiked by 3,894 percent at the time.<\/p>\n The report had also highlighted that the social engagement with spam posts had escalated by over 920 percent on public platforms as of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n
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