Very true and exactly what we plan to do, although when summed up you
find that a scoring system is best handled on a server and not a
client, i.e. Twitter Search. In the mean time we've got enough things
we can do real-time in javascript for our 'filtered' feed.
In our case we're dealing with
We had a chat about Twitter spam yesterday and would like a points
based approach to user ranking or spam rating. For those of us working
on 3rd party applications, having a spam score to be able to make
quick decisions on with regard to searches would be very useful.
For example, a new user
Hi Guys,
I developed http://www.itsabot.com, which was designed to detect twitter
bots. I am happy to open this up as a larger project if people want - and
move it into an open source project with spam accounts, not just bots.
Paul
2009/5/19 sillyt...@googlemail.com sillyt...@googlemail.com
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:06, sillyt...@googlemail.com
sillyt...@googlemail.com wrote:
For example, a new user would have a higher 'spam-rating' than a long
time user. Someone with a huge follow:follower ratio similarly. Given
how spam is used on Twitter, there are several categories which
We have a team dedicated to controlling the number of spam messages and
accounts in the system. The number of accounts, sophistication, and
techniques are constantly growing. The team is doing a great job of
isolating known attack vectors. Obviously there is still work to be
done. The abuse team
