Twitter suspends AI bot linked to memecoins after Elon Musk’s ‘fraudulent crypto’ claim

Twitter has suspended the account of popular memecoin-linked artificial intelligence bot “Explain This Bob” after Elon Musk claimed it was a “fraudulent crypto account.”

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

Account Explain this Bob supposedly he amassed over 400,000 followers before being suspended. The bot was created by Prabhu Biswal from India and used the OpenAI GPT-4 model to understand and provide replies to tweets from those who tagged the account.

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

The suspension is a reversal of Musk’s previous impression of a bot that tweeted “I love Bob” in response to one of his April 20 tweets, a tweet that also features prominently on Website.

However, Twitter took no action against Bob Token’s account. The project team jokingly responded to the news of the suspension, sharing a meme of Musk monitoring a distraught “Bob” in prison.

Observers believe that Musk is from View that Explain This Bob is used as a marketing tactics to promote the BOB award.

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Since the suspension, the hashtag “FREEBOB” has been circulating on Crypto Twitter. Most observers are of the opinion that BOB not a scam coin and the suspension is unjustified because the token launch was “fair” and moreover BOB was “fully decentralized” with a 0% tax mechanism.

Another claimed that the team did not provide any tokens or drops before the Bob Token launch in April.

Cointelegraph reached out to Biswal and Twitter for comment, but did not receive an immediate response.

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