Jeremey's Weblog

Twitter Mention Spam

Wow, I've been getting a ton of "@-reply" spam in my Twitter mentions feed. I propose the following algorithm:

If I follow the user, mark it as a mention.

If at least X percent of the people that user follows follow that user back, mark it as a mention. I'm thinking X = 30 or 40 for accounts that have existed for more than a month, 50 or 60 for accounts less than one month old.

If some percentage or number Y of people I follow follow the user, mark it as a mention.

...insert additional rules here...

Only display posts *marked* as mentions in the mentions feed. Mark anything else as "possible spam" to be watched more closely.

Something along those lines would prevent almost all @-reply spam from showing up in mentions feeds, I think. If Twitter is to succeed, this really needs to be dealt with (unfortunately).

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It's The FAIL WHALE... What Do I DO??

This morning I woke up to find Twitter had ceased to exist. Off the map. Gone. How will I tweet about Twitter being down?! Then I went to Facebook to post about Twitter being down... but Facebook was down too!! It's the Twitpocalypse!! What do I DO??

Then I remember I had a blog. Haha, we'll bring out the big guns. Take that, o thou whale of fail.

So now I have blogged about being unable to update Facebook about being unable to tweet on Twitter. Social media, what hast thou done to us??

:)

UPDATE: But I can't post a link to this on Twitter... sigh.

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