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OK, this makes sense to me, thanks. The original link looks innocuous and so is not marked as spam. After a period the URL redirect is changed to point at a
by pmjoyce 16y ago
OK, this makes sense to me, thanks. The original link looks innocuous and so is not marked as spam. After a period the URL redirect is changed to point at a spam site but because the bl.inc.gs URL was flagged as OK it's now more likely fly under the radar of Twitter's spam detection algorithm.
- devmonk 16y agoTwitter, Google, and everyone else could do a much better job at handling link spam. They need a mixture of having users flag requests as spam (which many do), analyzing all requests looking for trends in spamming (not just requests from same route/IP, but that would be part of it), looking at users with similar posts/tweets, etc. and then block the spammers. Easy enough, right? ;) Sounds like whoever they outsource to needs to get on the ball though.