If someone runs through your neighborhood killing people with a chainsaw, should the government shut down Home Depot because they sell chainsaws?
It is a fact of life that, regardless of how benign or how powerful the tools are that you provide your users, 99% will use them in a sensible and responsible manner, and 1% will always try and abuse them. Twitter is on the right track to focus on dealing with that 1%. Dewald On Jun 9, 6:43 pm, Brant <btedes...@gmail.com> wrote: > This message will hopefully get back to the people who run Twitter API > development and spam prevention. > > I noticed there are quite a few twitter applications that are > developed to abuse the service and violate their TOS. They do not > hide what their purpose is, yet these applications remain active. I > contacted twitter.com/delbius who heads Twitter Spam prevention and > she said that they do revoke API access to abusive applications. But > I don't think they are taking an aggressive stance against them. > > Abusive Applications:http://www.huitter.com/mutuality/http://www.twollo.com/ > > The combination of these two applications is for outright abuse of the > service. They have been around for several months and are known > applications to abuse the service with. To make matters worse, > Twitter suspends accounts of the people who use these applications > rather than targeting the root of the problem, the applications > themselves. (Sound counterproductive? RIAA uses a similar policy by > going after end users.) > > I propose that applications need to be more closely scrutinized and > can even be flagged as abusive by users. Instead of creating > algorithms that detect abnormal user behavior, why not detect abnormal > application behavior. > > Taking a stronger stance against gray area applications could reduce > server load on Twitter (giving real applications faster response time) > and reduce manpower to deal with spam prevention. > > I strongly encourage anyone who develops Twitter applications to send > this link around. > > Thanks for reading, > Brant > twitter.com/BrantTedeschi
