I agree, most ppl probably won't abide by any guidelines that they have to 'voluntarily' follow in order to identify themselves at bots. It's pretty darn easy to tell if something is a trend bot or not... especially with the username :) Matt even said they've identified them (uh oh, i'm on some kind of twitter watchlist.... but who watches the watchlist?)
If twitter themselves ever incorporate auto-updating search results like the special election pages, my bot and its links would pretty much be rendered useless D: -Chad On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Peter Denton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > - Show quoted text - > > 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 >
