On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Dossy Shiobara<do...@panoptic.com> wrote: > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: >> >> Spam? Privacy? Call me crazy, I know! > > So, who wants to form a data mining startup that crawls websites for "follow > me on twitter" links to people's twitter IDs, then correlates that to > contact email addresses for the site ... > > Easy revenue model: sell lookups from email -> twitter ID and twitter ID -> > email. > > Could this ever violate Twitter's ToS? In theory, you could build such a > service without ever accessing twitter.com - just crawl blogs and tumblr and > posterous and other such sites where folks advertise their twitter IDs, then > try to identify contact email address for the site owner. > > Clearly, there's demand for such a service - would people pay for this data? >
Hopefully most of us use Spam Poison and/or CAPTCHAs to conceal or obscure contact addresses on our site :) --ab
