Lol, someone want to write me an app that blocks all users where their
username ends with two or three numbers.
This is getting ridiculous.
Seems like something that would be pretty easy to achieve via the API
don't you think?
Cheers,
Dean
--
Twitter developer
What if Twitter just suspended anyone who followed more than 1,000
users without ever having tweeted? But then their membership would
sink dramatically. How about not allowing following past 100 users
without tweeting at least once. What is the point of these accounts
anyway, unless they are being
I know a number of people who use twitter as a read only source of
information (for instance they may follow only news outlets and celebrity
tweeters) and therefore may have large follow counts with zero tweets.
This may not be a use case that you are familiar with, but it is a valid
use case.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:17:25 +, hax0rsteve
hax0rc...@btinternet.com wrote:
I know a number of people who use twitter as a read only source of
information (for instance they may follow only news outlets and
celebrity
tweeters) and therefore may have large follow counts with zero
tweets.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:33:30 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
zn...@borasky-research.net wrote:
[snip]
One other note - a tweet that contains multiple Trending Topics is
nearly always spam. I haven't gathered any data, mostly because I'm too
lazy to write the API call management / rate limit
Today someone tweeted a quote on steve jobs to me. I responded to him
referencing the same quote. I got two mentions since Steve Jobs was in both
my tweets from an id @RT_steve_jobs . I consider this spam. What would the
general opinion be. This does not have any numerics :).
Regards
Umashankar
On 25 Mar 2011, at 18:49, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
One other note - a tweet that contains multiple Trending Topics is nearly
always spam. I haven't gathered any data, mostly because I'm too lazy to
write the API call management / rate limit logic to automate this. I'd
*almost* be
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:58:58 +, hax0rsteve
hax0rc...@btinternet.com wrote:
To pointlessly prolong the discussion - it being Friday :-) ...
[snip]
I guess what I'm getting at here is that any automated filtering
system ultimately
amounts to making value judgements on behalf of your
