[twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project
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 some categories of spammers that this approach will not work on, although they are easy enough to detect using other means. I have observed a trend of bots that attempt to appear human and those are the ones that I hope to identify. I will have something completed by about two weeks from now so I'll post with how effective it is. @johnsheehan I just followed you, I'll keep an eye on your followers for spammers. For others, I'm @jeff_tucker on twitter so please if you find an interesting spam account that is trying to look human let me know so I can grab their account history before twitter bans them, I'm primarily interested in their initial tweets prior to sending out links. I've noticed that if I start using keywords on trending topics then I get hits, although not nearly as many as I am hoping to get (imagine that, complaining about not getting enough spam). I'll keep trying and I think an algorithm that attempts to create the optimal post to attract the most spammers would be an interesting project as well, I may expand my research at some point in the future. Thanks everyone, appreciate the help. -Jeff On Apr 3, 9:55 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: 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 have any other questions, I'm @johnsheehan and can be reached via email same user name at gmail. John Interesting - most of the followers I've been getting are real humans, not that they're all that interesting humans. ;-) There was a period when I was getting a bunch of followers that were tweeting nonsense, sometimes not even real sentences. Eventually one or two them started to tweet links. Apparently the way they work is to build a network - if one of them follows you and you don't block them, then they copy each other. I suppose it's possible to collect data via the API and do graph theory analysis on these accounts to isolate the clusters, but it hardly seems worth the effort when there are so many accounts just spamming multiple trending topics apparently with little interference from Twitter. -- http://twitter.com/znmebhttp://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] users/lookup Bug with incorrect attached statuses
Before I post this as an issue is anyone else getting this problem. When I lookup multi users by username I get correct information on the user but the status supplied is an out of date in some cases. Cheers Darren -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup Bug with incorrect attached statuses
Bit more on this one, I am using include_entities set to true and getting the junk results. If I turn it off I get the correct results but I need the entities. Cheers On Apr 9, 3:34 pm, Ninjamonk dar...@stuartmedia.co.uk wrote: Before I post this as an issue is anyone else getting this problem. When I lookup multi users by username I get correct information on the user but the status supplied is an out of date in some cases. Cheers Darren -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] connection by Seesmic/Instagram iPhone Apps ?
I would like to know how iPhone Apps like Seesmic or Instagram connect to the Twitter account. They don't use any webview. I can do an app connecting with Oauth through a webview but how do these apps manage the connection? Do these apps have some special permissions/way to connect ? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] connection by Seesmic/Instagram iPhone Apps ?
Native mobile applications can apply for xAuth access, http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauth which allows an application to exchange a login password for an OAuth access token. Instagram Seesmic both use xAuth to simplify this flow. Depending on how deeply your application needs to use Twitter, I would also recommend evaluating other options like Web Intents http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary 2011/4/9 ジェローム jeromesa...@gmail.com I would like to know how iPhone Apps like Seesmic or Instagram connect to the Twitter account. They don't use any webview. I can do an app connecting with Oauth through a webview but how do these apps manage the connection? Do these apps have some special permissions/way to connect ? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project
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 a spam account before they ever actually send any links. There are certainly some categories of spammers that this approach will not work on, although they are easy enough to detect using other means. I have observed a trend of bots that attempt to appear human and those are the ones that I hope to identify. I will have something completed by about two weeks from now so I'll post with how effective it is. Interesting - I haven't seen that type of bot following me in a long time. Maybe the maker read http://borasky-research.net/2011/02/18/this-is-not-the-blog-post-about-twitter-youre-looking-for/ and put me on a do not follow because he'll send my name to Twitter list. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: connection by Seesmic/Instagram iPhone Apps ?
Thank you for the answer, that's what I understood (Instagram quotes xauth under their formulars actually). The thing is I built an OAuth provider for a service (based on the oauth-php library) it works well for our websites on PC/iphone and keitai (japanese handset) and we are now wanting to develop some native iPhone apps able to connect not only with our service but also with twitter (or/and others) for example, a la instagram. Using a webview is of course possible but the xauth is more elegant I think for the users in our case. Thank you again for the answer it clarified what I thought. Now I have to adapt my oauth provider for xauth (I already found some leads but not so much things about that on the net yet.). On 10 avr, 01:08, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Native mobile applications can apply for xAuth access,http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauthwhich allows an application to exchange a login password for an OAuth access token. Instagram Seesmic both use xAuth to simplify this flow. Depending on how deeply your application needs to use Twitter, I would also recommend evaluating other options like Web Intentshttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary 2011/4/9 ジェローム jeromesa...@gmail.com I would like to know how iPhone Apps like Seesmic or Instagram connect to the Twitter account. They don't use any webview. I can do an app connecting with Oauth through a webview but how do these apps manage the connection? Do these apps have some special permissions/way to connect ? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project
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 reputable publication's tweet about an article immediately after the reputable pub tweets it, see these when the article title includes the keyword hideout believe they're doing this to increase their credibility and have not yet figured out (or needed) to delay the RTs enough after the original tweet to make it look more like it's actually a real person a current example (about which I corresponded with the author just recently, he assured me that they are not doing it themselves, etc.) http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Inside+Gbagbo%27s+luxury+basement+hideout best, --Jerome Hughes @jromeh @hideoutchicago On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Jeff Tucker fred.f.cho...@gmail.comwrote: 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 some categories of spammers that this approach will not work on, although they are easy enough to detect using other means. I have observed a trend of bots that attempt to appear human and those are the ones that I hope to identify. I will have something completed by about two weeks from now so I'll post with how effective it is. Interesting - I haven't seen that type of bot following me in a long time. Maybe the maker read http://borasky-research.net/2011/02/18/this-is-not-the-blog-post-about-twitter-youre-looking-for/ and put me on a do not follow because he'll send my name to Twitter list. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] #TrollWatcher API app.
Hello other Twitter Developers. The other day I had an idea for a little service to monitor trolls. So some code was punched out to monitor a hash tag and the #TrollWatcher service was born. How it works is someone tags (#TrollWatcher) to a tweet and then a system check twitter and then adds any usernames in the tweets to a troll database. Then over time the big trolls on Twitter can be identified. http://twitter.com/TrollWatcher: http://j.mp/TrollWatcher Remember hashtag #TrollWatcher Thanks, and I hope you find it fun to tag trolls. Also I have a #FollowFriday helper app at: http://j.mp/bleuFF Thanks alot, and I hope you enjoy the apps... please share them with your friends too. Quinn Developer @thequinnshow -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: The thinking behind not drawing attention to Unfollows?
The intentions behind the rule is good, but what about the following list of applications (and many more) that do not respect the TOS ? http://mashable.com/2010/08/09/track-twitter-unfollowers/ happy coding :-) Nick On Apr 9, 5:05 am, Nicholas Chase nch...@earthlink.net wrote: From a user perspective, I think it's good to know that you can unfollow someone without them noticing, so you don't hurt their feelings. The last thing that Twitter wants is to be linked to hard feelings between people. But that's just my opinion. YMMV, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the reason. Nick On 4/8/2011 9:57 PM, Whonew wrote: Could someone from the Twitter staff go into some detail about why the Terms of Service stress not drawing attention to user's Unfollows? I have no particular interest in doing so; but I have been struggling to figure out why as I'm certain that many users would like to know without jumping through hoops. Thanks a lot! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] #TrollWatcher API app.
Uh ... what's the definition of Troll we are supposed to use? ;-) On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Quinn quinnmicha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello other Twitter Developers. The other day I had an idea for a little service to monitor trolls. So some code was punched out to monitor a hash tag and the #TrollWatcher service was born. How it works is someone tags (#TrollWatcher) to a tweet and then a system check twitter and then adds any usernames in the tweets to a troll database. Then over time the big trolls on Twitter can be identified. http://twitter.com/TrollWatcher: http://j.mp/TrollWatcher Remember hashtag #TrollWatcher Thanks, and I hope you find it fun to tag trolls. Also I have a #FollowFriday helper app at: http://j.mp/bleuFF Thanks alot, and I hope you enjoy the apps... please share them with your friends too. Quinn Developer @thequinnshow -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] users/lookup returns duplicates, missing records for valid users
I can confirm that this happens whether the lookup is by screen_name or id. Incidentally, any progress on Twitter's side? Way over a month now, and it only seems to be getting worse. Cheers, Adrian On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Nischal Shetty nischalshett...@gmail.comwrote: Anything on this? It's been quite some time and user lookup I believe would be used by a lot of apps. -N On 16 March 2011 05:46, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.comwrote: Still working on it, unfortunately. No ETA for a fix yet. I know it's an aggravating bug for anyone who runs into it. Thanks for being patient. Taylor On Mar 15, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Adrian Petrescu apetr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Taylor, Not trying to be pushy or anything, but have you guys uncovered anything related to this issue? It's still happening quite regularly for a couple of weeks now. Thanks, Adrian -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/dochttp://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- -Nischal twitter: NischalShetty http://twitter.com/nischalshetty facebook: Nischal http://facebook.com/nischal -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project
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 jro...@gmail.com wrote: 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 reputable publication's tweet about an article immediately after the reputable pub tweets it, see these when the article title includes the keyword hideout believe they're doing this to increase their credibility and have not yet figured out (or needed) to delay the RTs enough after the original tweet to make it look more like it's actually a real person a current example (about which I corresponded with the author just recently, he assured me that they are not doing it themselves, etc.) http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Inside+Gbagbo%27s+luxury+basement+... best, --Jerome Hughes @jromeh @hideoutchicago On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Jeff Tucker fred.f.cho...@gmail.comwrote: 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 some categories of spammers that this approach will not work on, although they are easy enough to detect using other means. I have observed a trend of bots that attempt to appear human and those are the ones that I hope to identify. I will have something completed by about two weeks from now so I'll post with how effective it is. Interesting - I haven't seen that type of bot following me in a long time. Maybe the maker read http://borasky-research.net/2011/02/18/this-is-not-the-blog-post-abou...and put me on a do not follow because he'll send my name to Twitter list. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmebhttp://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
