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Twitter suspends memecoin-linked AI bot after Elon Musk’s ‘scam crypto’ claim

June 19, 2023No Comments


Twitter has suspended the account of popular memecoin-linked AI-powered bot "Explain This Bob" after Elon Musk alleged it was a "fraudulent crypto account."

Musk alleged the account was scammed in a tweet on June 18 in response to the bot, the account was apparently suspended soon after.

The Account Explain This Bob reportedly he amassed over 400,000 followers before his suspension. The bot was created by Prabhu Biswal from India and used OpenAI's GPT-4 model to understand and provide responses to tweets from those who tagged the account.

The project was also tied to the ERC-20 Bob Token (BOB) memecoin which launched in April 2023. The suspension caused the price of BOB to drop by more than 30%. according to CoinGecko.

The suspension is a U-turn on Musk's earlier impression of the bot, who tweeted "I love Bob" in response to one of his tweets on April 20, a tweet that also figures prominently in the project. website.

However, Twitter has not taken action against Bob Token's account. The project team humorously responded to the news of the suspension, sharing a meme of Musk monitoring a distraught "Bob" in a prison.

Observers believe Musk is one of the view Explain this Bob is being used as a marketing tactic to prop up the price of BOB.

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Since the suspension, the hashtag "FREEBOB" has circulated on Crypto Twitter. Most observers are of the opinion that BOB not a scam coin and the the suspension is unjustified as the token launch was "fair" plus BOB was "fully decentralized" with a 0% tax mechanism.

Another claimed that the team was not provided with tokens or airdrops prior to the Bob Token launch in April.

Cointelegraph reached out to Biswal and Twitter for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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