Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Provide a spam score (or rathe r a “good citizen” flag)

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Green
Terms like spammer or good citizen are kind of vague. What are your goals in ranking users? Are you looking for good people to follow or engage with? In that case it doesn't really matter if they are a bot or a human. What matters is whether others find them interesting. Even more important is how

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Provide a spam score (or rathe r a “good citizen” flag)

2010-10-16 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I don't know about a karma score, but Twitalyzer does have an API and so does Klout. For that matter, Viralheat has an API and they can get both Twitalyzer and Klout scores. That said, I don't know that there's ever really going to be a one size fits all Twitter user metric. But there are