On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:29:23 -0500, Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]>
wrote:
It's an unfortunate reality, but for every one legitimate application
of
DM's, there's 100 projects being posted to rent-a-coder asking for an
"auto DM script" ...
As developers that use the Twtiter API, we're all collateral damage
to
the scammers and spammers. Yes, it sucks, but there's no other real
solution here.
Yeah - Google doesn't seem to be able to do spam control without
PhD-level manual intervention, so I can imagine how hard it is for
Twitter. ;-)
Rent-a-coder? Try Amazon Mechanical Turk - you can get things done
there for pennies an hour ;-)
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