Re: [twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project

2011-04-09 Thread Jerome Hughes
Jeff-- while tweeting for the Chicago music club The Hideout, keep a close watch on a search of the term "hideout" and see plenty in that stream that qualifies many of these "sock puppets" have patterns to their names and flaky "interests" that don't quite fit in their bios they'll often RT a re

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project

2011-04-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Jeff Tucker wrote: > Followers tweeting nonsense or just tweeting sentences that just don't > quite fit with reality is exactly what I'm hoping to identify. It's > easy enough to find a known spammer and block them, but my hope is to > identify a spam account befo

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: need twitter spam for a research project

2011-04-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:34:54 -0700 (PDT), John Sheehan wrote: You can use my account as an example. I'm currently getting between 50 and 150 follow spams per day for the last 3 weeks. Here's a graph that demonstrates the 'attack' http://screencast.com/t/xl7zcgdYI If you have any other question