I'm not sure if this will help in your scenario or not, but a couple of third-party products have been released recently aimed at helping to solve this problem. One is a Firefox plugin called Clean Tweets ( http://www.blvdstatus.com/clean-tweets.html) that works directly with the search results in the browser. The second is a product that I've been working on called TidyTweet (http://tidytweet.com/) that will let you set up a search phrase and numerous filtering options including blocking tweets with multiple trending topics. Once the feed is setup, you get an RSS/ATOM feed or HTML/Javascript widget for embedding on your site.
Sorry for the blatant plug, but it seems like it might prove helpful in this case. We're currently in private beta testing, but should be able to accomodate a few more requests. Thanks. Michael Paladino http://tidytweet.com On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:41 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
