Jeff-- while tweeting for the Chicago music club The Hideout, keep a close watch on a search of the term "hideout" and see plenty in that stream that qualifies
many of these "sock puppets" have patterns to their names and flaky "interests" that don't quite fit in their bios they'll often RT a reputable publication's tweet about an article immediately after the reputable pub tweets it, see these when the article title includes the keyword "hideout" believe they're doing this to increase their "credibility" and have not yet figured out (or needed) to delay the RTs enough after the original tweet to make it look more like it's actually a real person a current example (about which I corresponded with the author just recently, he assured me that they are not doing it themselves, etc.) http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Inside+Gbagbo%27s+luxury+basement+hideout best, --Jerome Hughes @jromeh @hideoutchicago On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky < [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- 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
