Hi there,
We do have a slew of reports and tools for our abuse team looking
at blocking, duplicates and some "secret sauce" to find bad accounts.
I'll pass this on and see if it wasn't caught for some reason or is in
the process of being handled. As far as sharing our data it via the
API we have no plans to do that. The issue isn't showing the data to
friends, it's showing it to enemies. I think the development community
could probably come up with some cool analysis on this, but so could
the spammers. If you show your opponent all of your cards they will
raise the stakes.
Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev
On May 8, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
I knew this would happen... one person with a bunch of accounts has
managed to spam my social network analysis:
http://www.twurlednews.com/2009/05/08/entrepreneurs-wanted-12/
In this case, it is very obviously the same person, since she is
using the same picture for every account and only slight variations
of her real name.
I can detect some of this by seeing real names that correlate to
multiple identical tweets... Curious if anybody else has thoughts on
ways to identify this sort of abuse. Perhaps if the API told us
what percentage of people block each user?
Just noticed that most of her profiles have the same home page URL,
so that's a strong clue... and most of her tweets contain the same
URL.
I'm sure that Twitter's fraud group uses some sort of scoring
system... any chance that any of that data could be shared in the
API to help automated systems avoid retweeting spam?
Nick
