Twitter's NSFW porn spam nightmare for women with common names

Andrea James 1:44 pm Fri Jul 27, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lvcGGOcqE&feature=youtu.be

For at least a couple of years, Twitter has allowed one porn spam bot to clog up search results for common women's names, as well as for names of young female celebrities. It would not take a lot to create an algorithm to block this specific spam, but it's still here, because Twitter can't seem to address the platform's pervasive hostility to women.

The porn spambots typically pump out two posts a minute with a random string of sex-related search terms, along with a short video always overlaid with the same text and translucent rectangle to avoid copyright flagging of the clips they use. As soon as you block one, another appears.

As I was writing this up, I typed "Ashley Jones" into Twitter and got this:

Here's what I got for "Jennifer Smith":

Yet another reason why Twitter is the shittiest platform in the history of the internet.

• Sample of Twitter's porn spam problem (YouTube / Andrea James)

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