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Thanks, Doug On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Zac Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is the @spam account monitored by a bot or a human? > > Zac Bowling > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey > Greenberg<[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > >> <[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 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 >
