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A comment on the idea "I'd like to be able to see who favorites my posts" in Twitter:

Yeah, I just regularly check http://textism.com/favrd/favorites/pe...[username] to see my tweets that have been favorited. – weskimcom, on July 17, 2008 18:13

A comment on the idea "I'd like to be able to see who favorites my posts" in Twitter:

That could work, but there's no individual RSS feed. Just a big unified one. I admit, though, the request for an RSS feed of that data is outside the scope of the original request. – Josh Lewis, on July 17, 2008 17:35

A comment on the idea "I'd like to be able to see who favorites my posts" in Twitter:

Try http://textism.com/favrd/. Well, once they're back online anyway. (They're down at the moment while some twitter API updates take place.) – weskimcom, on July 17, 2008 16:53

Josh Lewis replied on July 17, 2008 15:08 to the idea "I'd like to be able to see who favorites my posts" in Twitter:

With no offense intended to ono_matope, Favotter isn't really cutting it for me. I like it, but it misses favorites quite often. Is Twitter still making forward motion on this request?

hansengel replied on July 14, 2008 20:17 to the idea "How about daily and weekly versions of New Follower email?" in Twitter:

I like this idea, and would like to see it implemented. Good job!

weskimcom replied on June 04, 2008 16:51 to the problem "Blogger/javascript include script not working" in Twitter:

Never mind, it's back now...

Andrew replied on June 04, 2008 15:47 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

I'd say put a "flag" link on the user's profile. It's hard to find the spam report now.

Ken Weiner started following the problem "Blogger/javascript include script not working" in Twitter.

weskimcom reported a problem in Twitter on June 03, 2008 03:30:

Blogger/javascript include script not working

The blogger/javascript include code for embedding twitter in your blog doesn't work anymore. Any idea what's going on?

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

I don't log into my Twitter though; I use a Facebook app to update from there. This might count as logging in, but this raises the next problem: If the API is there to log into Twitter via an automated application, then all spammers will do is write an app that automatically logs them in every now and again, to prevent their account from expiring, so your suggestion wouldn't solve the problem, sadly. – Rohaq, on May 31, 2008 13:33

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

I don't log into my Twitter though; I use a Facebook app to update from there. This might count as logging in, but this raises the next problem: If the API is there to log into Twitter via an automated application, then all spammers will do is write an app that automatically logs them in every now and again, to prevent their account from expiring, so your suggestion wouldn't solve the problem, sadly. – Rohaq, on May 31, 2008 13:33

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

I see what you mean. Something must be done about the people who have cybersquatted so many names though, and it's too much for any dev team to handle at this point! – MN, on May 30, 2008 19:56

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Oh my... I hope they won't auto-delete based on last login date because I have friends who follow me via sms, but they never update and never login. They only signed up to receive my updates. I wouldn't want their accounts to be automatically deleted. – mdy, on May 30, 2008 19:34

MN replied on May 30, 2008 19:29 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Lycos mail deletes your account if it hasn't been logged into after X amount of months, I like that method.

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.

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

there's an @spam and the user 'spam' APPEARS to be receiving spam reports for Twitter, but there's nowhere else that this appears to be mentioned – Thomas, on May 29, 2008 02:39

ck010 replied on May 21, 2008 18:41 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

A good system would be a Time/Rating and double check system. This would be fair to anyone, even if a mass of people decide to take out someone they just don't like:

Rating system: Everybody starts at 0. If the rating goes to -25 (negative 25) it's real bad.. if it goes up, then we all like that person behind the profile!

Double Check: The Twitter people get a warning and take a look at the profile in question (and the messages!) and from there on decide whether the profile should be removed if it's with very poor rating.

Solution: Let the rating system warn the Twitter people and from there on let them look. Of course, the rating warning for the Twitter people should be in a certain time limit.. for instance: one week of continuing negative ratings, they look.

Ask others to help and translate when messages are in another language.

Also try to see if it's possible to use Akismet on Twitter. Works very good on Wordpress blogs..

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Yes, spammers do do that, there are even systems that actually OCR CAPTCHA's (which the more "sophisticated" they become only manage to keep out more real humans more efficiently - CAPTCHA has always been a dead-end keeping out humans quite efficiently, too). Looking at "multiple accounts from the same IP address" will of course also not work - spammers so far are only testing the waters here, it seems, but they'll use all the devices already used in other contexts, including botnets of zombied machines to have an endlessly varying pool of IP addresses to post from.
Dealing with spammer is always an arms race - it has begun, you can't stop that. - All you can try to do is anticipate by looking at their techniques in other contexts, as well as successful anti-spam (but not anti-human) techniques. – Marjolein Katsma, on May 11, 2008 04:56

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

What will the spammers do in response? My point about having two ways to vote actually addresses that (think of spammers taking "revenge" for having their accounts marked as spam). It is a concern, but it goes both ways, also giving real humans a way to counteract spammers' revenge. – Marjolein Katsma, on May 11, 2008 04:47

shehaal replied on May 10, 2008 22:55 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Kee Hinckley brings up a good point about "what will the spammers do in response?" This is definitely something to keep in mind when looking at how to tackle this problem - and voting accounts as either spam or not spam is going to be exploited.

As an example, I've read various reports of spammers hiring people to overcome manual intervention sections of sites where completely automated creation of accounts was failing - for example, answering challenge questions, solving CAPTCHAs, etc (sorry, it was a while ago so I'm not sure where I read it, just remember that I did!).