I think everyone in CT noticed the annoying uptick of AI/spam replies. Only now did I understand that this can be directly linked to
@KaitoAI
The Kaito spam effect.
Because it is now becoming more than a nuisance, I decided to check out reply spam, as a fake engagement metric, stats.
I am on one of Kaito's "top list" - whatever they are, and I am getting tons of reply spam on Twitter, more than a thousand messages per month. It's, of course, super annoying, because it's not a real conversation and I am here to have conversations with smart people, not with bots, both Ndivia-based and meat-based.
So how big is the problem? Twitter analytics gives historical "replies" rates. You see something went badly wrong in June 2025.
And what happened in June?
"In June 2025, Kaito AI featured and integrated the LOUD project into their mindshare leaderboards as part of its Initial Attention Offering (IAO) launch around June 1. This offered users substantial token rewards and airdrops based on engagement metrics like yaps points, which heavily incentivized low-effort reply farming and spam on Twitter (X) to inflate mindshare scores and dominate rankings—LOUD surged to over 60% of total crypto Twitter mindshare at its peak, amplifying the issue across the platform."
The tragedy of the commons. Kaito is selling fake metrics for fake projects and, in the process, annoys a lot of people.
As this problem degrades the quality of our beautiful social media platform, which hosts meaningful conversations from industry thought leaders, I will pay $200 to,anyone who creates a web extension (Firefox) that provides a click auto-spam report button on the Twitter timeline. I believe the solution is that eventually, if we report enough, Twitter's spam control algorithms will start to put these bots "under the fold," and this metric gaming becomes useless. Or alternatively, I can also pay $200 for anyone who blows Kaito out of existence, including Ser Kim Yong.
Also I am willing to pay $200 for anyone who goes and farts on the face of Web3 business developers who are buying anything from Kaito.
Thx.