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What I'm missing the most is any concrete information on false positives. They state the want near zero false-positive, which is great, but what's the actual ra
by gingerlime 12y ago
What I'm missing the most is any concrete information on false positives. They state the want near zero false-positive, which is great, but what's the actual rate? and how is this measured?
It's easy to reduce spam by X% if you don't care about increasing your false-positives rate.
I'm also curious what ways users have to flag false-positives on twitter. It's easy to 'block or report', but is there a spam box to inspect and mark things that were wrongly classified? If there isn't an easy way, then it's going to be much harder to even measure false positive rates, let alone reduce it.
- jqueryin 12y agoI can myself attest to the fact that Twitter has plenty of false positives. I use a custom url shortener url and on several occasions I have been flagged for spam. What I'd really like to see is the option to submit a report for the false positive. I'm sure the data mining is picking up on not only my initial submission, but also reattempts with altered content to try and bypass their greedy algos. Needless to say it's a bit of a bummer when you curate a tweet only to be denied sending. I think they have it out for .CO url shorteners :)
- QuantumGood 12y agoWhat reason was given you in the spam flag notification?
- jqueryin 12y agoI haven't had one trigger in a week or two so I can't recall the exact response. I've had it happen on separate accounts using url shorteners as well as when attempting to send DMs containing shortened urls. If it's of any use, I use Tweetdeck.