Purpose of Spam Bots: It's reasonable to assume that one purpose of these spam bots could be to interact with accounts and posts to reduce their visibility on X. This happens through disrupting engagement metrics, triggering content reviews, potentially leading to shadowbanning, and affecting account reputation. However, while this might be an effect, their primary intent might still be to promote spam content.
Platform Algorithms and User Actions: X's algorithms aim to combat spam, which can sometimes inadvertently affect legitimate content visibility. Your proactive reporting and blocking of spam bots should help in the long run, signaling to X that you're actively fighting spam, although there might be a delay in system recognition of these actions. If visibility issues persist, contacting X support might be necessary for resolution.
Reported and blocked... https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1871784840665894965/photo/1