"abuse support" - ha ha. just imagine -
Q: What do you do? A: I support abuses at twitter. I am sorry this is slightly off topic but I could not resist Cheers On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Doug Williams<d...@twitter.com> wrote: > The replies and DMs sent to @spam are manually reviewed by our abuse support > staff at the moment. > > Thanks, > Doug > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Zac Bowling <zbowl...@gmail.com> 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<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 > >
