Also, you could filer this out on your side. If you have the trending topics on hand, you could write the same rule to eradicate spammy posts.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > > So i'm seeing a ton of tweet spam that appends the trending topics to > the tweet. For example, "Hey here is my http://spam/1234 Michael > Jackson MJ iran" > > They get picked up by searches ( for instance see the search "stock > market" at http://www.tweettronics.com ) > > What is Twitter doing or planning on doing to deal with this? It has > been noted elsewhere that any tweet with 3 or more trending topics is > likely to be spam... Will Twiitter institute an automated spam > rejection through the API let alone through it's other interfaces? > > I suppose we've entered the era of dealing with Twitter spam with all > our apps... ugh > > Please advise > > jeffrey greenberg > http://www.jeffrey-greenberg.com > http://www.tweettronics.com
