We have a team dedicated to controlling the number of spam messages and accounts in the system. The number of accounts, sophistication, and techniques are constantly growing. The team is doing a great job of isolating known attack vectors. Obviously there is still work to be done. The abuse team is hiring. If you think you have what it takes, please apply: http://twitter.com/jobs Thanks, Doug --
Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'm working as part of the #twumpet team and as part of our project > we're developing an application as well as running some Twitter events > - the first having been Eurovision earlier today. > > As we hit the top trend, #twumpet got - and is still getting - > enormous amounts of spam. Spammers are signing up, blitzing messages > through one immediately after another, and then moving on to the next > account. > > Does anyone know if Twitter are going to stop users firing tweets off > one after another so blatently like this? I just checked on a couple > of top trends and all I can see is spammers tonight. > > Also, as a developer working on a project which will be dealing with > trending topics and popular searches, I need a quick way to throw out > spam messages. > > I have a couple of ideas for strategies but would be interested in > discussing them, and perhaps a group effort which used Twitter itself > for rapid short term spam classification & reporting [through Twitter > search or a further API]. The one thing about spammers is they appear > and disappear extremely quickly so any lists would be very short and > 'live', at least for now... > > @newretro >
