On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Ah. Well. My mistake. Thanks TjL
