[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-03-07 Thread Alan Hamlyn
100% agree Alan On Mar 5, 1:54 am, nickmilon nickmi...@gmail.com wrote: These kind of tools do a lot of damage to twitter ecosystem. On Mar 4, 3:02 pm, Alan Hamlyn alanhamlyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dewald, In fact you partly answered it yourself. Random login CAPTCHA's when logging

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-03-05 Thread nickmilon
These kind of tools do a lot of damage to twitter ecosystem. On Mar 4, 3:02 pm, Alan Hamlyn alanhamlyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dewald, In fact you partly answered it yourself. Random login CAPTCHA's when logging in to twitter, or the occasional one if flagged based on users tweets to have

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Hamlyn
Great Idea :P On Feb 25, 10:16 am, Pascal Jürgens lists.pascal.juerg...@googlemail.com wrote: How about a competition to develop spam-detection algorithms :) Pascal On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: Apart from implementing reCAPTCHA on tweet submission, follow, and

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Hamlyn
I agree entirely, sites like Tweetadder, tweettankone, are very popular though because they do what oauth apps aren't allowed to do. On Feb 25, 4:22 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote:  On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:16:54 +0100, Pascal Jürgens  

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Hamlyn
Hi Dewald, In fact you partly answered it yourself. Random login CAPTCHA's when logging in to twitter, or the occasional one if flagged based on users tweets to have once to fill one in to send a tweet. Algorithms, especially to to detect accounts that send 98%-100% links in tweets. Legal

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-02-25 Thread Pascal Jürgens
How about a competition to develop spam-detection algorithms :) Pascal On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: Apart from implementing reCAPTCHA on tweet submission, follow, and unfollow, I can't see what Twitter can do to prevent that kind of abuse (can you imagine the revolt

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-02-25 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:16:54 +0100, Pascal Jürgens lists.pascal.juerg...@googlemail.com wrote: How about a competition to develop spam-detection algorithms :) Pascal I don't see VCs / angels funding that sort of thing, so there's not likely a market. -- http://twitter.com/znmeb

[twitter-dev] Re: Apps that Site Hack

2011-02-24 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Apart from implementing reCAPTCHA on tweet submission, follow, and unfollow, I can't see what Twitter can do to prevent that kind of abuse (can you imagine the revolt by bona fide users?). How else do you determine that it is an actual human and not a piece of automated software behind the browser