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It'd be great if I could automatically block spam accounts that follow me, as opposed to the current option of just automatically not following them back.

It'd be better still if these spammers could be identified based on following/follower ratio and topics that they tweet on as well as by presence on the blacklist.

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

Your site sucks. Worst survey site I've ever seen. Fix all your damn stupid pop ups and get a solid look and feel. It's pathetic that people actually use this site but if they're going to then you better step up and give them quality design.

When I revive my email with the list of new followers and people no longer following. I'd like to have an option to click a link, and take all of the new followers and post a #FollowFriday and maybe something evil for the un-followers. make up your own hastag for that. :-p thanks. Dev.

In the lower section of the report, where you list the new follows and unfollows, you really ought to consider using a real simple HTML table to format that part of the report.

It would make it much more readable and usable ...

It would be helpful in the email feedback of followers & unfollowers to state which date the stats represent as they seem to be one to two days behind. Love SocialToo! Keep up the good work! www.twitter.com/supahstah