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Disclosure; I'm ManageFlitter's Co-Founder/CTO Twitter recently stopped apps from offering any kind of bulk management services for Twitter accounts. We comple
by zemaj 13y ago
Disclosure; I'm ManageFlitter's Co-Founder/CTO
Twitter recently stopped apps from offering any kind of bulk management services for Twitter accounts. We completely support Twitter trying to stop spam, but this action does nothing of the kind. Here's my full thoughts; http://blog.manageflitter.com/twitter-drowning-spam-why-their-current-approach-wont-save-us-and-what-will http://blog.manageflitter.com/twitter-drowning-spam-why-thei...
Anyway the point of this service us just to point out how ridiculous the restrictions are. We will really be delivering it, however - the economics work. We're just finalising how we'll prove it's real people, most likely with a live stream going at all times.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoIt reminds me of Aero's little antennas each receiving broadcast television which they then re-stream over the net. A nice hack on the ToS!
- nonchalance 13y ago> Just by measuring a few simple indicators, and plugging them into a baysian probability algorithm, we've been able to detect spam accounts with a very high accuracy. slight nitpick: the word is "Bayesian", not "baysian"