I didn't even know that there was a way to report tweet spam to Twitter. I'll definitely add a "Report Spam" feature to my application.
On Jul 8, 11:28 am, Jeffrey Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm liking Andrew's thoughts regarding sensitivity to what spam is, > and am thinking about the gmail like vote-if-spam approach. > > Wondering if the api community (or really twitterers) would use an api > such as this: smellsLikeSpam( list_of_tweet_ids )... Twitter could > aggregate and apply policy to resulting votes. > > If you're doing a twitter interface app, then you've got to provide > this unpleasant activity to users which they currentl don't have to do > now. But gmail is an argument in favor of it working well and not > being too onerous on users in the aggregate. > > I think the problem in general is more dire for search-based > functionality than for general tweeting, since search picks up not > only (somewhat) older tweets but new ones and potentially in very > large quantities. So if I pick up a tweets yesterday and today it > becomes spam, I'll want to know about that and be ale to toss the > tweet (god what phrase), which has implications for apps such as mine > and for twitter too... > > .
