I am skeptical that bot devs, (outside of the integrious Jazzy Chad), will do anything to encourage segregation, as it would probably lead to a nuking list at some point. I would say this has to be done programatically, with a "secret sauce" that is known to twitter only. As search is more and more the golden goose apparent, gaming will be enemy number 1.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Nick Arnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> We've talked about this among the search folks a few times. We exclude >> a bunch of bots and things from influencing trends but then they still get >> displayed. I just opened a ticket for someone to fix that so we can exclude >> the trend bots using a parameter or search operator. >> >> As far as if this is the correct place for search or not, I think it >> is. If other Twitter API developers disagree please let me know and I'll >> start a second group. From my perspective keeping up with one is easier for >> me to manage … and we're planning to merge the APIs in the next version of >> the API. >> > > It would be terrific if users could self-identify as bots and that data > became part of the user profile. Although I'm sure that many people would > not bother, we'd at least know that some of them definitively are bots. My > bots self-identify in their description, which people seem to appreciate. > > Hmm. Maybe it would be far easier to simply encourage a hashtag in the > description - how about #bot? That's something we could do now, without > Twitter having to make any code changes. Thoughts? > > Nick >
