Comments on: Twitter @reply is Broken by Bots

By: Corsin Camichel

Corsin Camichel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:41:12 +0000

new blog post: Twitter @reply is Broken by Bots http://bit.ly/3wLYKb

By: CoCaman

CoCaman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:00:51 +0000

@giu guess it is not as simple as blocking public timeline. Those bots are following people and therefore do not need to parse the public timeline. And I think your webspace example is good because it shows, that they are actively tracking keywords.

@Sam I know. But I think this will destroy Twitter. When I joined Twitter in March of 2007 I knew all Swiss twitteres This is a problem because it became so popular. They just need to do a better job blocking the bots. Imagine the Google results being full of spam. They handled that pretty well.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:48:59 +0000

This really will be a problem if this starts to repeat itself exponentially (as I’m afraid I guess it will). But – what could Twitter do against this? (closing replies down to friends is no good option)

By: giu

giu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:45:57 +0000

there are bots that @reply if you mention specific keywords (not hashtags) in your tweet. last time I tweeted about the webspace transfer a bot @replied with a list of the top 10 webspace providers. and guess what: I didn’t know any of the webspace providers. the biggest problem of twitter will always be spam! I don’t know why they don’t block the public timeline (located at http://twitter.com/public_timeline).

By: FollowMeTools

FollowMeTools — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:14:57 +0000

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