Re: [twitter-dev] Block count?

2011-02-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
There is no direct way to get this information from the API. The API will
contextually indicate the accounts the current user blocks but it does not
go the other way.

GET http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/blocking.json and GET
http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/blocking/ids.json are the relevant methods.

Aggregating and surfacing this information for purposes outside of the
current user context would definitely be a case of surprising users
though. Data about who a user who has blocked should remain private to that
user alone.

Taylor

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:

  Can you tell from the API how many people block a twitter account?

 (how about how many people block your own accounts?)





 If twitter don’t provide tools to help combat spam soon they are going to
 fall into a chasm of uselessness.





 Cheers,

 Dean







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RE: [twitter-dev] Block count?

2011-02-02 Thread Dean Collins
Thanks for the reply Taylor. Maybe what I was trying to explain was
Is there anyway that I can check to see if an account has been blocked
by more than 100,1000 etc accounts

 

Don't need to know who blocked them, just need to know this is probably
a suspect account and like SURBL I should also treat accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Dean

 

 



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To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Block count?

 

There is no direct way to get this information from the API. The API
will contextually indicate the accounts the current user blocks but it
does not go the other way. 

 

GET http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/blocking.json and GET
http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/blocking/ids.json are the relevant
methods.

 

Aggregating and surfacing this information for purposes outside of the
current user context would definitely be a case of surprising users
though. Data about who a user who has blocked should remain private to
that user alone.

 

Taylor 

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:

Can you tell from the API how many people block a twitter account?

(how about how many people block your own accounts?)

 

 

If twitter don't provide tools to help combat spam soon they are going
to fall into a chasm of uselessness. 

 

 

Cheers,

Dean

 

 

 

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Re: [twitter-dev] Block count?

2011-02-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
Unfortunately not.

Our Trust  Safety team is working on problems with spam; I trust they will
continue improving this landscape. It's a multi-pronged problem of
course: disincentivize spammers, make spamming more difficult, better detect
spam, better filter for relevance, better empowering users to report spam.

I'm not sure if I'd consider blocks the best signal in regards to spam.
People block for many reasons.

Taylor

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:

  Thanks for the reply Taylor. Maybe what I was trying to explain was…. Is
 there anyway that I can check to see if an account has been blocked by more
 than 100,1000 etc accounts



 Don’t need to know who blocked them, just need to know this is probably a
 suspect account and like SURBL I should also treat accordingly.











 Cheers,

 Dean




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 *From:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:
 twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Taylor
 Singletary
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:14 AM
 *To:* twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [twitter-dev] Block count?



 There is no direct way to get this information from the API. The API will
 contextually indicate the accounts the current user blocks but it does not
 go the other way.



 GET http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/blocking.json and GET
 http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/blocking/ids.json are the relevant
 methods.



 Aggregating and surfacing this information for purposes outside of the
 current user context would definitely be a case of surprising users
 though. Data about who a user who has blocked should remain private to that
 user alone.



 Taylor

 On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote:

 Can you tell from the API how many people block a twitter account?

 (how about how many people block your own accounts?)





 If twitter don’t provide tools to help combat spam soon they are going to
 fall into a chasm of uselessness.





 Cheers,

 Dean







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