Crypto is one of the most discussed topics by Indonesian netizens on Twitter throughout 2021. According to Twitter analysis, the increase is quite significant from the previous year, reaching 20 times.
This statistic was revealed . The most about non-fungible token (NFT) digital assets in the world.
The hashtags #crypto and #nft themselves are the two most talked about hashtags by Twitter users in Indonesia throughout 2021. There are even several local accounts that dominate conversations about digital assets, such as @asset_kripto and @kaptencrypto707.
As the conversation around crypto and NFT grows, fraud related to these two digital assets is also becoming more and more common. Twitter as a platform that wants to support healthy public conversation also has ways to protect its users from fraud.
Twitter already has a policy to protect users from fraud, phishing, and deceptive discounts. Ade stressed that this policy is applied to all types of fraud, not just those involving crypto.
Twitter users who found tweets deemed to violate the policy to be reported immediately so that the violating account received strict penalties. "Violators can get sanctions including the URL posted will be blacklisted or account suspension permanently,".
Talking about crypto scams on Twitter, last year the internet world was in a commotion when accounts belonging to Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Barrack Obama were hacked to promote a fraudulent bitcoin giveaway. Ade said Twitter was continuously trying to improve the security of user accounts from hacking, but he still urged users to be proactive by enabling two-factor authentication (2FA).
So it can be activated if there are people who want to access it from a suspicious place, we will provide a notification that is obtained via email and it can be confirmed that it is you or not.
"Our support team will help if the account can't be accessed, please report it and we have a form there, there is a form that can be accessed by Twitter users who want to get help from the Twitter support team," he concluded.
