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I think there may be a different approach: let spammers (aka bots) flourish and let users upvote the most helpful ones. In short: 1. Create a second type of Tw
by evanjacobs 15y ago
I think there may be a different approach: let spammers (aka bots) flourish and let users upvote the most helpful ones.
In short:
1. Create a second type of Twitter account for bots.
2. Give users the ability to opt out entirely of seeing bot replies.
3. Give users the ability to upvote helpful automated replies.
I wrote a blog post with this suggestion a while ago:
http://www.readwritehack.com/how-twitter-can-win-back-developers http://www.readwritehack.com/how-twitter-can-win-back-develo...
- robtoo 15y agoI think you'll find that the spammers won't actually be that keen on officially registering as a bot.
- evanjacobs 15y agoOffering spammers a regulated way of reaching a mass audience also gives Twitter the ability to be much more aggressive in shutting down accounts who pose as real users.
- robtoo 15y agoIf you ask users "Do you want robots to be able to send you spam? Yes/No", pretty much all of them will say No. Hence bot-owners won't be that keen on officially registering as bots.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoIsn't it a trivial task to automate twitter account creation? Shutting down christinanik2883 because she didn't register as a Botified Citizen doesn't do anything about jonnyi9032 or shellystack48799823.