On the topic of bots, http://www.itsabot.com works pretty well most of the time.
Paul 2009/3/9 TjL <[email protected]> > > 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 >
