Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-12-01 Thread Josh Roesslein
Hopefully as time goes on twitter will start pushing out more sophisticated anti-spam measures. On twitter.com/jobs does have an open position for anti-spam engineer so they are actively seeking to form a bigger team for this cause. So if you are looking for work and are a spam killing ninja might

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 04:23:40PM -0500, TJ Luoma wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > wrote: > > Twitter, what say you? Developer community, what say you? > > > > Twitter, Inc. can't even keep up with porn spammers reported manually > using the "Report As Spam" lin

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-11-30 Thread neal rauhauser
Sign in to your Twitter account, go to http://twitblock.org, and drop EVERY SINGLE JUNK FOLLOWER YOU HAVE. No, the junk followers aren't britbots, but if you don't have any losers following you your britbot exposure goes way, way, way down. I'm particularly suspicious of the followers tha

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-11-30 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 11/30/09 4:23 PM, TJ Luoma wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > wrote: >> Twitter, what say you? Developer community, what say you? >> > > Twitter, Inc. can't even keep up with porn spammers reported manually > using the "Report As Spam" links, what makes you thin

Re: [twitter-dev] Call for action #StopBritneyBots

2009-11-30 Thread TJ Luoma
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:19 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Twitter, what say you? Developer community, what say you? > Twitter, Inc. can't even keep up with porn spammers reported manually using the "Report As Spam" links, what makes you think they would be able to keep up with an automated