On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Jeff Tucker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Followers tweeting nonsense or just tweeting sentences that just don't > quite fit with reality is exactly what I'm hoping to identify. It's > easy enough to find a known spammer and block them, but my hope is to > identify a spam account before they ever actually send any links. > There are certainly some categories of spammers that this approach > will not work on, although they are easy enough to detect using other > means. I have observed a trend of bots that attempt to appear human > and those are the ones that I hope to identify. I will have something > completed by about two weeks from now so I'll post with how effective > it is. > Interesting - I haven't seen that type of bot following me in a long time. Maybe the maker read http://borasky-research.net/2011/02/18/this-is-not-the-blog-post-about-twitter-youre-looking-for/ and put me on a "do not follow because he'll send my name to Twitter" list. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
