On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:18:58 -0500, "Dean Collins" <d...@cognation.net>
wrote:
Ok I'm drowning here, I've given up trying to manually block all the
people on twitter sending me spam and I don't think that TrueTwit is
really the solution.
What we really need is a distributed system like Spam Assassin where
when enough people "block" or report an account as spam that it is
then flagged and block from all other participating accounts. Does
something like this exist already? Is the API the limit to using
something like this? What can I cut down on the number of follows who
are sending me spam accounts?
Cheers,
Dean
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I'm guessing Twitter has to manually review all the "block and report
for spam" reports, unless they either get thousands of such reports for
an account, or the account's offensive behavior is so blatantly robotic
that it triggers some other automated detector.
How many new follows do you get per day now? I'm following about 9300
and followed by about 8600. I only get about 20 - 30 new followers a
day, about half of which are humans that I want to follow back, or are
people who have followed me back. So I have enough time to go through
the list once a day and look at not only the new follower but also the
list of up to six other accounts in the email and make decisions on each
one - follow, unfollow, block or block and report.
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