Great Idea :P On Feb 25, 10:16 am, Pascal Jürgens <lists.pascal.juerg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > How about a competition to develop spam-detection algorithms :) > > Pascal > > On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > > > > > Apart from implementing reCAPTCHA on tweet submission, follow, and > > unfollow, I can't see what Twitter can do to prevent that kind of > > abuse (can you imagine the revolt by bona fide users?). How else do > > you determine that it is an actual human and not a piece of automated > > software behind the browser on the user's desktop or laptop? The only > > other option is legally, and that depends on the country of residence > > of the owners of the software. At this point in time, it appears that > > anyone who is able to and have the inclination to write desktop > > software that bypasses the API might have carte blanche to do so.
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