Twitter didn’t completely disable posting bitcoin addresses

[Yatsan]

This might be their way of stopping those scammers who are hacking celebrity's Twitter pages and some other people who have a lot of followers. They might be thinking or doing something to prevent those scammers from executing their plans. When they cannot post their BTC address anymore, they will have a hard time to convince people to invest of their lies.

Due to recent issues including Twitter hacks involving famous individuals accounts, that maybe the reason why Twitter is doing such to serve as a counter measure to stop the scammers from intruding the platform so that no other people will be victimized by such schemes. Also, what I have known is that Twitter is restricting people or pages to ask for donations regarding any matter to avoid people from getting caught into such situation that they might be potentially scam or hacked in any other way possible. This action done by Twitter is just showing how they are really concern on the welfare of its users to fight back against hacks and scams so that the recent issue that have happened will not happen again on the platform.

[anamul17]

I thing honestly don't see how this would prevent any scams but maybe there's something I don't know. I mean, can think of a few easy workarounds: put in a QR code or post an image, or just a link that goes to an invoice asking to pay. Which I suppose, works for anyone who really wants to put an address for legitimate purposes but equally accessible to those not.

[FinneysTrueVision]

This seems like an overreaction. I would guess that most people posting their address are doing it for benign reasons. They would probably just rather avoid the negative attention they get whenever there's a big scam and that's their reason for doing this. Hopefully the scams go away but they always seem to figure out a new way to trick users.

[skarais]

Hopefully the scams go away but they always seem to figure out a new way to trick users.

No, scam will never go away in the mainstream world especially for bitcoin. Scammer are constantly looking for ways to trap people until they get what they want. But it looks like Twitter is just taking precaution for reason what happened before. To be honest, I haven't used Twitter in a while and I wasn't aware of any such restriction. So I don't think the ban has a negative impact on bitcoin and the good thing is that people can still send their bitcoin addres with QR code and on their profile.

[Darkelf11]

I tried posting my bitcoin address on twitter, it has been posted successfully. Maybe twitter will remove it anytime soon. I think twitter is just taking a precaution for the protection and privacy of its users. If ever that they really disable it, I think there's a way of putting it in a tweet aside from placing it in your bio, you can add "@" somewhere in your address just like on facebook there are some links that facebook disable us from sending through pm so I think with that character "@" we can tweet and access bitcoin addresses from twitter.

[carter34]

Twitter just want to protect their users from potential scam. Even I am a twitter user I think posting of btc address is not that much needed.

I believe that it is for protection for users. Twitter has a first role as a business outfit to protect the people in the platform. So any thing that can create doubt in the minds of its customers can be checked and sending btc address is one of them to avoid fraud and scam.

[Alucard1]

I wasn't informed about that thing in Twitter because I am not that too active in social media but I think Twitter disable tweet using bitcoin address or crypto wallet address to prevent scamming, even though our crypto address is for the public, it does necessary means that aw should post it on social media whenever we want, we should still be careful of the things we ate going to do online because hackers and scammers are always there especially on social media platforms. It is like baning a Facebook platform for using the hashtag bitcoin in some certain areas.

[metenjean]

Still available for tweet bitcoin address on twitter social media account, you can check with many participants or airdrop tweet their wallet when airdrop beginning, thousand people tweet address and not block. You have active on airdrop project to know is real or not because I always submit my eth address and bitcoin address during have airdrop event  needed to retweet address on airdrop tweet. Every airdrop more than thousand tweet but still safety without block by twitter.

[Inkdatar]

I didn’t know this matter because I still could able to post my Bitcoin address in my bio in my account. Also, I have seen many users who truly joined giveaways there and can still comment on their bitcoin address. So twitter didn't completely disable to post bitcoin address and maybe in the future their is a restriction as these days a lot of scammers existing.

[AakZaki]

After the many hacks that have occurred on important accounts on twitter, people are starting to be wary of what they share so as not to be scammed a second time.
I don't know if Twitter is not serious about its security or the hackers are able to easily find security holes on Twitter.

Filtering bitcoin addresses may be one way to reduce the incidence of fraud using bitcoin, but this will not change and eliminate the scammers. there will be many other ways they try. will not be a system and a safe place in the online world, we as users must also be vigilant. Remember that on youtube scammer ads appear freely and of course include the BITCOIN and ETH addresses.

[ultrloa]

Filtering bitcoin addresses may be one way to reduce the incidence of fraud using bitcoin, but this will not change and eliminate the scammers. there will be many other ways they try. will not be a system and a safe place in the online world, we as users must also be vigilant. Remember that on youtube scammer ads appear freely and of course include the BITCOIN and ETH addresses.

It helpful in less aspect since scammers who post giveaways will be eliminated but it cannot drive away some certain scammers who have other methods of scamming since they can just create websites or a group chats where they can post their addresses to scam people   thats's why the only thing can save us from scams is being educated and to know the different scam tactics as well doesn't believe on big returns on short period of time since this is the most use front of scammers.

[uneng]

That is a shame. Twitter was a very good and open platform until some years ago, but now seems it only gets worse. There is a lot of censorship and abusive control over accounts there right now. It's already time for a new really open and if possible, decentralized social media go mainstream. There are some options, but not popular enough yet.

About Twitter's excuse they did this to prevent *scams* it is even more ridiculous. It's like the father who catches his daughter and her boyfriend making out on the lounge's couch, but instead of reprehending the act he removes the couch from the lounge, as it was a solution for the issue...

[Lordhermes]

I am not really aware of this for I have not done this before on my tweet, I'm a great of user of twitter but I only write son crypto related hash tags, I just quickly have a thought that saving btc address on a profile can trace users with multiple accounts if actually twitter is against that rule.
What I have noticed nowadays, is that many upcoming projects uses twitter as a major social media for promotions, as CEO and teams gives #btc a unique icon.

[Debonaire217]

Perhaps, it will signify that the address you have on your profile is the real bitcoin address you are using for transactions. It was not allowed to be posted on tweets nor to be sent as a message and the reason might be because compromised accounts could spam other for their bitcoins it it could be easily seen in tweets and messages.

I don't think this is the best precautionary measure twitter should do to avoid the bitcoin scamming incident again. They should devise a new protocol, increase the security of their app, and improve their verification process to help avoid these incidents.

[AakZaki]

It helpful in less aspect since scammers who post giveaways will be eliminated but it cannot drive away some certain scammers who have other methods of scamming since they can just create websites or a group chats where they can post their addresses to scam people   thats's why the only thing can save us from scams is being educated and to know the different scam tactics as well doesn't believe on big returns on short period of time since this is the most use front of scammers.

Big profits with a small deposit do give hope to people who are new to crypto and want to get more and faster profits. There are many methods that will be used to spread, although not on twitter, chat groups like telegram are currently being favored by scammers and creating many groups to commit fraud. We all have to be aware of the many scams in the online world, including in the crypto world, which has a higher risk because if anyone is deceived, no one will be able to help him and return the money that has been taken by the fraudster.

[maartenhaha]

Perhaps, it will signify that the address you have on your profile is the real bitcoin address you are using for transactions. It was not allowed to be posted on tweets nor to be sent as a message and the reason might be because compromised accounts could spam other for their bitcoins it it could be easily seen in tweets and messages.

I don't think this is the best precautionary measure twitter should do to avoid the bitcoin scamming incident again. They should devise a new protocol, increase the security of their app, and improve their verification process to help avoid these incidents.

I thought it was just a temporary deterrent as a sign they were responding to previous scam reports about bitcoin, like bitcoin doublers being tweeted by artist account hacks. Twitter as a cryptocurrency-friendly social media will increase security with a new protocol to prevent scams.

[shield132]

Hum. Honestly don't see how this would prevent any scams but maybe there's something I don't know. I mean, can think of a few easy workarounds: put in a QR code or post an image, or just a link that goes to an invoice asking to pay. Which I suppose, works for anyone who really wants to put an address for legitimate purposes but equally accessible to those not.

It's a total nonsense. Why do you have to disable posting of bitcoin addresses because your system seems was shit and someone was able to hack it and include his bitcoin address in posts. What if someone decides to edit posts with Paypal short links? Or emails? Do we have to disable placing of pp links and emails? Without a doubt, it's like when doing nothing is better than doing something.

Twitter disallowed users to tweet bitcoin addresses ever since that infamous bitcoin doubler scam. But it looks like you can still put them in your bio.

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This is an address left in someone’s bio on their profile. It must mean that Twitter intentionally does not scan profiles for BTC addresses, only tweets and maybe quote/retweets too. I don’t think they scan DMs, do they?

on Twitter still needs human resources to check for these wrongdoing. It is clear that Twitter is still quite weak to ensure that scams are not present on their social media sites.
Not only crypto, 18+ sensitive topics are rampant on Twitter and no one has yet handled those video clips
So don't trust any social media too much, check it carefully before you speculate on something. Even if it is a celebrity fundraising project or event, you need to verify it before making a deposit.

Same applies to facebook too and even on google, there are some crypto advertisements which as far as I know is forbidden right now and nothing has changed lately in this rule. Btw they can't control everything, we have to use our brain.

[buwaytress]

It's a total nonsense. Why do you have to disable posting of bitcoin addresses because your system seems was shit and someone was able to hack it and include his bitcoin address in posts. What if someone decides to edit posts with Paypal short links? Or emails? Do we have to disable placing of pp links and emails? Without a doubt, it's like when doing nothing is better than doing something.

Yeah, I mean, I totally get the intent and that this will in the short term at least, save a few idiots from clicking and paying but at the end of the day you're just postponing an idiot's day of getting had.

OF course, this could just be a legal thing. Other rich idiots later suing them for not doing enough to protect their reputations and all that. I believe FB and Yahoo have been sued for allowing scams when obviously scammers will always find a way to bypass. This is what it's all come to I guess.