You Won’t Believe What Bots Are Doing on X!

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In a revelation both shocking and entirely predictable, X’s Head of Product, Nikita Bier, has confessed that no amount of technology can tame the relentless army of spam haunting crypto accounts. A staggering 80% of crypto activity, he claims, is performed by bots-presumably the only ones still working diligently.

Such candor arrives amid the usual chorus of complaints labeling the platform a “horrible website,” paired with the grudging acknowledgment that, like a moldy umbrella, it is still the least terrible option for open communication.

X’s Bier Draws a Line in the Bot-Infested Sand

Once a champion of technological optimism, Bier now whispers of limits-of the futility of algorithms against the mechanical legions of spam.

“The financial incentive to spam on X will decline enormously over the next 30 days and soon be negative,” proclaimed Bier in March, perhaps naively imagining that bots are susceptible to the pangs of conscience.

The platform has reportedly purged 1.7 million bots, revoked API access from InfoFi apps, and even rolled out a dislike button-an innovation certain to comfort only those who enjoy clicking buttons as a form of sadistic entertainment.

This week we purged 1.7 million bots engaging in reply spam. Improvements may be noticed soon, pending bot complaints. Next up: DM spam.

– Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) October 12, 2025

Yet Bier now admits the truth: these heroic measures are but paper shields against a tidal wave of automated absurdity. The only plausible remedy is the introduction of 2nd-degree reply restrictions, currently in trial for Premium+ subscribers.

“No technology in the world can cure a crypto account of its spam replies-because 80% of crypto is simply bots. The path forward is 2nd-degree reply restrictions,” Bier lamented on a Sunday, with the gravitas of someone announcing the inevitability of death.

This feature extends the circle of permitted responders to followers of followers, while still keeping the incorrigible unknowns and bots at bay-because even bots deserve boundaries, or at least polite ones.

The concession paints a bleak picture: crypto’s bot problem is structural, not merely technical. If 80% of accounts are mechanical, no filter can save us from ourselves without accidentally purging a few unfortunate humans.

Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko and the Comedy of Crypto Communication

Yakovenko, a co-founder of Solana, chimed in with a critique so honest it could be mistaken for art: X is “horrible,” yet oddly indispensable for public discourse in crypto. A tragicomic paradox, indeed.

Communicating on this horrible website in the open in threads is the least worst channel, how does @nikitabier do it

– toly 🇺🇸 (@toly) April 5, 2026

The commentary followed a satirical post that decreed a series of absurd rules: ignore DMs, scorn Telegram, refuse your own doorbell, and do not respond if someone dares speak your name. A comedy of manners for the blockchain age.

The joke landed amidst the fallout of the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit on April 1, a crime of social engineering rather than code-proof that trust itself has become a hazardous investment.

In such a landscape, even opening a message becomes an existential risk worthy of Wildean melodrama.

X’s Anti-Spam Opera

Since assuming the helm in mid-2025, Bier has executed a series of anti-spam measures worthy of a grand operatic gesture: revoking API access, introducing the dislike button, and preparing auto-locks for novice crypto posters. One imagines him twirling his mustache as bots cower in digital corners.

We are revising our developer API policies:

No more apps rewarding users for posting on X (“infofi”), the source of much AI slop & reply spam. API access revoked, so your X experience should… improve in ways not entirely guaranteed.

– Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 15, 2026

Kaito’s token price promptly fell 20%, proving once again that in crypto, drama is always valued over stability.

Despite all efforts, Bier’s latest pronouncement reframes the battle: crypto spam is now declared a fact of life, woven into the very fabric of the ecosystem. Fighting it is like attempting to teach a fish to climb a tree-entertaining to imagine, futile to attempt.

Will 2nd-degree reply restrictions make a dent, or merely inspire bots to evolve their own Wildean wit? Only time, and perhaps irony itself, will tell.

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2026-04-05 14:11