But what would be the motivation for someone to script this to begin with? I guess I'm having a hard time understanding the value proposition.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Andrew Badera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But then what are you enforcing with the CAPTCHA? Aren't you just making > it > > more difficult, more hurdles to leap, for people to engage with you? > > > > The CAPTCHA is used to get people to look at your tweet selection > carefully. Without it, people could just post their tweet selection > and use a script to automatically look at other people's tweet > selections. > > Amir > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Badera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > How would that get you MORE followers -- you're asking people to read > >> > your > >> > tweets, then you check to see if they did? > >> > > >> > >> If they like your tweet selection, they might consider following you. > >> > >> Amir > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Andrew Badera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> > ... and then? > >> >> > > >> >> > I'm thinking of jumping off the Empire State Building tomorrow with > >> >> > Jeb > >> >> > Corliss ... > >> >> > > >> >> > Beside the apparent randomness of your post, was there an > underlying > >> >> > question? > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> Do you think it would work? Is it worth building to try it out? > >> >> > >> >> Amir > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> > wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Hi, > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I'm thinking of building this service using the twitter API: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> * you submit a selection of your tweets that you are particularly > >> >> >> proud of > >> >> >> > >> >> >> * you also submit a CAPTCHA to check whether someone looking at > your > >> >> >> selection really looked at it carefully > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Example: such a CAPTCHA might ask the user to select the tweet in > >> >> >> your > >> >> >> selection that satisfies a particular criterion. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Your tweet selection will be shown to k people provided that you > >> >> >> correctly answer the CAPTCHAs in ~ k selections. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> You could have people use tags to facilitate search/browsing of > >> >> >> tweet > >> >> >> selections. Moreover, these tags could be used to improve a > service > >> >> >> such as http://b4utweet.com. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Amir > >> >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> http://b4utweet.com > >> >> http://chatbotgame.com > >> >> http://numbrosia.com > >> >> http://twitter.com/amichail > >> > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://b4utweet.com > >> http://chatbotgame.com > >> http://numbrosia.com > >> http://twitter.com/amichail > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://b4utweet.com > http://chatbotgame.com > http://numbrosia.com > http://twitter.com/amichail >
