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This has been going on for quite some time, and I would be embarrassed if I were a part of Twitter's engineering team.

From a technical standpoint these types of scam tweets should be easily identified as spam and the fact that they aren't is damning.

It's not just Twitter. Fake SpaceX "live" streams with a couple thousand viewers regularly pop-up in my YouTube recommendations. They're peddling the same kind of crypto scams.

What they typically do is takeover an existing YouTube channel, rename/brand it so it shows up in all of the people who subscribed to the channels feeds.

It’s even more maddening that there is no way to report that a YouTube channel has been compromised, there are only report options for inappropriate content of various sorts.

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