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alexschleber reported a problem in hashtags on April 03, 2009 20:16:
Tags pages timing outwhy have the individual tags pages (e.g. for #followfriday been rather consistently down/timing out? I think your service is great, in fact I think Twitter should buy you out or support you, but it needs to WORK reliably
alexschleber shared an idea in SocialToo on February 12, 2009 05:58:
Automated solution for sifting out most of the spammers?I had been thinking about an automated method for sifting out most of the spammers.
Here is what I see (not sure if it's prohibitive due to too many API calls somehow):
1) Let the user enter threshold values for the 3 values used below,
as well as possible exclusion keywords (e.g. "liberal", "conservative", "God", etc.)
to check against the bio text.
2) For each new follower, fetch their extended info (1 call, no?), parse the XML,
and then do the following checks on it
foreach ($exclusion_word as $ew) { if (preg_match('!$ew!', $biotext)) $exclusion=1; }
3) if OR $exclusion=1
// people don't follow them back
OR friends / followers > 2 (default, your user can adjust to his/her liking)
// they have few updates, as well as 10 x the followers than updates, -> "spammy"
OR (updates < 50 AND followers / updates > 10)
THEN - Do NOT follow (i.e. "continue"), and possibly put them in a "quarantine" email
for the manual processing you just developed.
ELSE follow
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Do you think this could work?
Best - Alex Schleber
alexschleber replied on April 29, 2008 19:02 to the problem "Issue with faulty "In reply to" link in @ replies" in Seesmic:
alexschleber reported a problem in Seesmic on April 29, 2008 18:37:
Issue with faulty "In reply to" link in @ replies1st: Great job guys... Twhirl rocks!
Small issue with twhirl: in the @ replies, it shows "in reply to" + plus a link to profile only, NOT the link to the actual tweet replied to (even though this still shows correctly on Twitter.com).
The chain of @ linked tweets is thereby broken for anyone studying such a "thread" via Twhirl. Also, since the @[username] is already clickable and links to the username profile, this second link at the end is a duplication.
In reply to [username] would be the correct way.
Would be good to fix this and make Twhirl even more useful.
Thanks in advance.
alexschleber replied on April 11, 2008 22:48 to the question "Issue with TwitterNotes private notes bot and a request for public RSS" in TwitterNotes:
nope, and I haven't heard anything from them either, even though I also separately emailed the developers off of their blog (2 guys from South America from what I could tell).
They prob simply don't have the time/resources to manage this. Twitter should buy them, along with Terraminds, and keep Twitter at the forefront of innovation in this space. They appear to be in sort of a lull right now, even though, from what I hear, they are making decent money from a profit share of the text messaging traffic they drive.
It's too bad, TwitterNotes has some very good ideas, some of which aren't quite properly executed yet (like the RSS feed with the authentication which basically makes it useless for most people).
Innovate or die.
alexschleber asked a question in TwitterNotes on March 27, 2008 18:07:
Issue with TwitterNotes private notes bot and a request for public RSS1) You guys rock and are on the right path...
2) The "Follow" request sent to TNotes account never got a reply so far (been about 30+ minutes), so private notes aren't working for me yet.
3) PLEASE, please, please, make the "by tag" RSS feed available in public, non-authenticated format, that way it can be easily used in RSS feed tools (like "Blog RSS Feed Reader" app on Facebook), etc. Obviously, the private notes would have to be shielded from public extraction "fishing" somehow.
Thx. Best - Alex
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