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I was a user of your service. and when I signed up, I started following so many spammers I had to kill the oauth hookup. I don't know what was wrong with it,
by catch23 17y ago
I was a user of your service. and when I signed up, I started following so many spammers I had to kill the oauth hookup. I don't know what was wrong with it, but it kept auto following all the horrible horrible spammers and my follower list just filled up with really bad people. I had to manually go through my follower list and delete people. Good thing I didn't have thousands of followers or else it could have taken me days.
- zackattack 17y agoI am really sorry that it did not work out for you. Sending you an email.
- catch23 17y agoYou should consider disabling the service until you fix this issue. It wasn't just a bad experience for me, it was a negative one... one that cost me around 5 hours of work to clean up.
- paraschopra 17y agoMaybe you could look at Followers to Following ratio of a potential spammer to detect if it is indeed a spammer?
- catch23 17y agoThe main issue was that zack's software would automatically make me follow someone. He could probably add some basic heuristics to prevent people from following spammers. Even basic bayesian filtering would have worked. Some of the spammer accounts have completely identical tweets. It would seem kind of stupid if I had to write the software to filter my followers... I could just not use customerfind, it seems easier that way.