On Monday, April 4, 2011 2:19:38 AM UTC+1, Jeff Tucker wrote:
Unfortunately (I can't believe that I'm writing this) I am having a
hard time getting spammers to actually spam me. Is there any way that
I can somehow get access to the tweets of several dozen spam accounts
(prior to when
Is there any way that I can somehow get access to the tweets of
several dozen spam accounts
(prior to when they're shut down) so that I can see what they're
posting? Is this possible somehow?
I think this is not possible as yet. (unless you are twitter
themselves, they have the data but I
dont
Followers tweeting nonsense or just tweeting sentences that just don't
quite fit with reality is exactly what I'm hoping to identify. It's
easy enough to find a known spammer and block them, but my hope is to
identify a spam account before they ever actually send any links.
There are certainly
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Jeff Tucker fred.f.cho...@gmail.com wrote:
Followers tweeting nonsense or just tweeting sentences that just don't
quite fit with reality is exactly what I'm hoping to identify. It's
easy enough to find a known spammer and block them, but my hope is to
identify
Jeff--
while tweeting for the Chicago music club The Hideout, keep a close watch on
a search of the term hideout and see plenty in that stream that qualifies
many of these sock puppets have patterns to their names and flaky
interests that don't quite fit in their bios
they'll often RT a
Wow, this is great data, finding all kinds of stuff. These types of
spammers I think are going to be really easy to find with my
approach. I'm going to have to tweak my knowledge base a bit but
that's ok, I think that this is actually going to work. Thanks!
On Apr 9, 12:30 pm, Jerome Hughes
You can use my account as an example. I'm currently getting between 50 and
150 follow spams per day for the last 3 weeks. Here's a graph that
demonstrates the 'attack' http://screencast.com/t/xl7zcgdYI
If you have any other questions, I'm @johnsheehan and can be reached via
email same user
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:34:54 -0700 (PDT), John Sheehan
johnshee...@gmail.com wrote:
You can use my account as an example. I'm currently getting between
50
and 150 follow spams per day for the last 3 weeks. Here's a graph
that
demonstrates the 'attack' http://screencast.com/t/xl7zcgdYI
If you
