On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote: > >> IMO, "trend bots" should have to be registered with Twitter (they say >> what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should >> excluded from Twitter search. > > How do you enforce bots registering as bots, however?
Well, revoking API whitelisting for any that don't register properly would be a good first step. Just a checkbox/radio button on the API whitelisting form should do. That will deal with any new ones. As for existing ones, well, just a matter of watching the Trending Topics and ID'ing trending bots. Add a banner on search.twitter.com which links to a blog post on the Twitter blog for more information. TjL
