Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? Zac Bowling
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey Greenberg<jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alex, so you're saying that we ought to auto-report spamming that we > detect. > > And I guess we have to formulate some spam detection strategies of our > own... > > And obviously you're dealing with spam of different kinds already: > @spamming, follower spamming to name two of em... but can you speak to > this particular one which screws up search results? Does Twitter do > spam detection on tweets? I guess you should be somewhat secretive on > the approach so that spammers cannot workaround it easily, but can we > expect more aggressive filtering from Twitter itself or is this really > a full-blown app responsibility? > > Thanks. > jeffrey > > On Jul 7, 3:59 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: >> Anyone can send a Direct Message to @spam with the username of a potential >> spammer. We factor those reports into our automated spam detection tools. >> We're well aware of the issue, and we appreciate the help. >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 15:41, Jeffrey Greenberg >> <jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > So i'm seeing a ton of tweet spam that appends the trending topics to >> > the tweet. For example, "Hey here is myhttp://spam/1234Michael >> > Jackson MJ iran" >> >> > They get picked up by searches ( for instance see the search "stock >> > market" athttp://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 >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
