Presumably, in order to check that a URL is not malicious, it would
have to be accessed and analysed by tco.
In his post Raffi said, Twitter will redirect them to the original
URL after first confirming with our database that that URL is not
malicious. So it's not by domain, but by URL.
One of
Dean - I meant the IP of the crawler - we have lots of DENY ACLs in
place to curb rogue bots.
On Jun 11, 3:21 pm, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:
Of course it is.
Twitter were asked what defines a bad site on the second day but I
haven't seen a reply apart from more questions about who
My guess is that Twitter uses the Google SafeBrowsing API, in addition
to other blacklist APIs.
http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
Google SafeBrowsing is basically two databases, which you can host
locally, and are constantly updated by Google. One database consists
of potential phishing
