Comments on: A Twitter Honeypot

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:14:18 +0000

sure you know this, but dm-ing @spam with the usernames of spammers is the recommended way of bringing them to the attention of the Powers That Be.

By: Verious

Verious — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:26:56 +0000

Applying the principles of a spam honey pot to Twitter is a very clever way to identify bots.

By: jbum

jbum — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:18:49 +0000

Senthil: It’s pretty obvious how they’re doing it – they are finding people via search.twitter.com, and then following them – but pretty hard to weed out the bad ones from the good ones. I don’t think all automatic uses of the Twitter API are inherently bad.

Wally: Thanks :)

All: If you find some egregious offenders, I suggest reporting them by sending a direct message to the http://twitter.com/spam

By: Senthil

Senthil — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:35:05 +0000

Very good experiment, i think twitter should do something about finding the pattern by which these bots make the API call and kill -9 bot(i)

By: Wally

Wally — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:20:17 +0000

Awesome experiment… but then, so is everything else you do…

By: rob friedman

rob friedman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:33:51 +0000

the Chiropractors are following me too!

Also I hate the mass messengers who look for terms, and then auto ping you a url in spam bot fashion.

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