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Why wouldn't they just email twitter explaining how to identify the spammers and including a list?
by trotsky 14y ago
Why wouldn't they just email twitter explaining how to identify the spammers and including a list?
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoSaid email would become a confession and evidence if Twitter (or a third party that had this list) were to charge the leaker under CFA (or the relevant law in their country). Posting it anonymously has the same effect without exposing the leaker to legal issues.
- rhizome 14y agoAlso: Joe Jobs.
- waqf 14y agoSteve's extra-evil twin? Or did you mean "Joe jobs"?
- rhizome 14y agoThe latter.
- Intermernet 14y agoJoe was the good one.
- readme 14y agoI googled but cannot find the right CFA. What is it?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoWell follow that logic a bit, your a social networking company, you get email from person A (who you don't know) saying that user B is a spammer. (or that these 55K accounts are spammers) what do you do? Well if you do anything automatically then you put yourself at risk for people bullying other legit users by accusing them of spamming. Since real users tweet all sorts of bad things when you accidentally ban them, you want zero false positives, so you have a fairly heavy weight policy. So if the policy takes an hour per account, reports of 55,000 would be really hard to do. However, if you release the passwords of them into the 'wild' then all Twitter has to do is 'prevent further abuse' which is a password reset and mass mailing. Again, its pure speculation on this leak, the problems with acting on internet reported abuse is one that I got to see first hand at Google when I was there (people get reported as spammers, accounts get disabled, tempers flare, nobody is happy, it is a really hard problem.)