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KC replied on July 08, 2008 04:05 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:
Twitter should/could do the following *right now* to make things easier:
- Include a "block" link in the email.
- Include the # of people this "person" follows, along with the number of people who follow them. This helps us determine if they are legit or not without having to click on their profile.-
KC replied on July 08, 2008 04:00 to the idea "Approving Followers To Reduce SPAM" in Twitter:
Debra, follow-spammers bog down twitter for all of us.
Let me add to the suggestion that twitter could include the number of people the requester already follows, and is followed by, to help us gauge if this person is real or just a spambot. -
KC started following the idea "Approving Followers To Reduce SPAM" in Twitter.
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KC replied on May 30, 2008 18:17 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:
It seems easy to find the obvious automated follow-spammers:
> 10,000 followEES (people the spammer follows)
< 1000 followERS (people who follow the spammer)
You could also add blocking stats to really eliminate any false positives. e.g. > 5% of your followEES block you.
This would protect people like Scoble who follow lots of people, but flag follow-spammers who load the system for no one's benefit but their own. -
Ikcor shared an idea in Twitter on May 29, 2008 23:20:
Delete All Twitter SpammersWould deleting all of the twitterspammers help performance at all? I know it wouldn't fix it, but fewer messages sent is fewer messages sent. Some of these spammers follow 25,000 people or more.
Couldn't Twitter auto-delete accounts that follow more than 10,000 people but have less than 1000 of their own followers?
