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What if it's an engineering problem? What if it were the case that in order for Twitter to be able to distribute new tweets at the rate and volume that they do,
by martingordon 15y ago
What if it's an engineering problem? What if it were the case that in order for Twitter to be able to distribute new tweets at the rate and volume that they do, that they can't run the type of analyses required to effectively curb spam?
- corin_ 15y agoThey already analyse tweets in real-time, for example to find out what topics are trending, and what the current "top tweets" are.
- martianpenguin 15y agotheir "real time" analysis may not be fast enough... when I get followed by a spam bot, it's frequently deleted within a few hours. But those couple hours are enough to have a few hundred @replies that could cause direct emails that would sit around until someone gets a chance to check their email
- martingordon 15y agoThat's done after the tweet has been posted though. What I'm wondering is if they have the ability to check tweets after they're submitted but before they're posted.
- danilocampos 15y agoIt strikes me that posting a tweet and displaying it to another user's account could actually be two separate transactions. Can't the spam analysis be performed on a just-in-time basis when a client refreshes its @replies?
- p4bl0 15y agoI don't think it's interesting nor pertinent to do a tweet-per-tweet spam analysis. What would be something is to automatically block account when a few operations has been made with it after its creation (like following 1000+ people without having tweeted, following noone but having already 50+ tweets with @pseudo and a link in it... these kind of obvious indicator of spam activities).