[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Badera
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Jeffrey Greenbergjeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: can we expect more aggressive filtering from Twitter itself or is this really a full-blown app responsibility? Careful what you ask for -- if Twitter gets too aggressive, it's bound to impinge upon some

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-08 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
I'm liking Andrew's thoughts regarding sensitivity to what spam is, and am thinking about the gmail like vote-if-spam approach. Wondering if the api community (or really twitterers) would use an api such as this: smellsLikeSpam( list_of_tweet_ids )... Twitter could aggregate and apply policy

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-08 Thread Duane Roelands
I didn't even know that there was a way to report tweet spam to Twitter. I'll definitely add a Report Spam feature to my application. On Jul 8, 11:28 am, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm liking Andrew's thoughts regarding sensitivity to what spam is, and am thinking

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-08 Thread Blaine Garrett
Outside of trends, another area where this could be handy is when using Twitter as a sort of OpenId style authentication method. i.e. Sign in with your twitter account. Our service we have a lot of tools and algorithms in place to eradicate spam. A few months ago, we offered twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Payne
Anyone can send a Direct Message to @spam with the username of a potential spammer. We factor those reports into our automated spam detection tools. We're well aware of the issue, and we appreciate the help. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 15:41, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.comwrote: So

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Denton
Also, you could filer this out on your side. If you have the trending topics on hand, you could write the same rule to eradicate spammy posts. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: So i'm seeing a ton of tweet spam that appends the trending topics

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Alex, so you're saying that we ought to auto-report spamming that we detect. And I guess we have to formulate some spam detection strategies of our own... And obviously you're dealing with spam of different kinds already: @spamming, follower spamming to name two of em... but can you speak to

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Zac Bowling
Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey Greenbergjeffreygreenb...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, so you're saying that we ought to auto-report spamming that we detect. And I guess we have to formulate some spam detection strategies

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Doug Williams
The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support staff at the moment. Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Zac Bowling
Good to know before I started spamming @spam with my own log data. Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote: The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support staff at the moment. Thanks, Doug

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Terry Jones
Zac Good to know before I started spamming @spam with my own log data. Right. When Twitter becomes a religion, I'm sure they'll set up an account where apps can go to confess that they're spammers. Until then you'll have to wait :-) Terry

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Vinayak Joshi
abuse support - ha ha. just imagine - Q: What do you do? A: I support abuses at twitter. I am sorry this is slightly off topic but I could not resist Cheers On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote: The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our

[twitter-dev] Re: Spamming via addition of trending words to tweets

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Paladino
I'm not sure if this will help in your scenario or not, but a couple of third-party products have been released recently aimed at helping to solve this problem. One is a Firefox plugin called Clean Tweets ( http://www.blvdstatus.com/clean-tweets.html) that works directly with the search results