On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, TjL <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> IMO, "trend bots" should have to be registered with Twitter (they say >>> what they are going to use their API access for, right?) and should >>> excluded from Twitter search. >> >> How do you enforce bots registering as bots, however? > > Well, revoking API whitelisting for any that don't register properly > would be a good first step.
Huh? Bots don't need any sort of whitelisting to exist or function. It's trivial to create and run one. It won't be so trivial once OAuth hits, but I'm sure it won't be much of a barrier. -chad
