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Sure. Just wait until Twitter becomes worth gaming, and see if its "Human Powered Search" is still good for anything. If a large enough number of people ever
by alex_c 18y ago
Sure. Just wait until Twitter becomes worth gaming, and see if its "Human Powered Search" is still good for anything. If a large enough number of people ever start using Twitter to research products, it'll be overrun with spam, and it will be much harder to combat than for Google.
- calambrac 18y agoOne way to mitigate this would be to allow users to limit search to who they following, or some circle around them. This might even be the basis of a business model, if Twitter gets its micropayments story worked out: let folks who are good at finding good content charge other users to follow them (something small, 10c a month or whatever). People might pay if they felt like they were avoiding spam and getting good, searchable content.
- trezor 18y ago* If a large enough number of people ever start using Twitter ... it'll be overrun with spam* Too late. Whenever I've mentioned a single, specific technology product or stack, it has taken less than 3 hours until some totally random stranger with nothing but "related" spam updates adds me, obviously expecting me to instinctively add them back, like I'm some kind of follower-count whore. Twitter is being heavily spammed and gamed already.