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Alex Payne  
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 More options May 6 2008, 7:45 pm
From: "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:45:14 -0700
Local: Tues, May 6 2008 7:45 pm
Subject: Re: Determine if users are blocked/blacklisted by Twitter
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Jesse,

We've been considering this issue here at Twitter HQ, and we're
planning on simply removing the accounts of users who have violated
our Terms of Service, as opposed to freezing their account as we've
done in the past.  Going forward, you should no longer run into
accounts that behave in unexpected ways.  You can find more about our
approach to spam and abusive users in a recent thread on our
Satisfaction support site.

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Alex Popescu
> <the.mindstorm.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Jesse, I am not very sure I am following you. On your side (not a
> > spammer) the current mechanism will give you hints
> > that you are trying to follow a spammer (the follow action will
> > silently return). On the spammer side the current mechanism allows him
> > to follow new users so he has not hints that receiving new followers
> > is blocked.

> > cheers,

> > ./alex
> > --
> > .w( the_mindstorm )p.
> >  Alexandru Popescu

> The issue I'm having, unless I'm missing something, is that the current
> follow action silently returns, whether the user is a spammer or not, making
> it hard to determine that individual is a spammer or not.  (I'd prefer not
> to follow him/her if they are a spammer)  Is it supposed to be returning
> something that I just haven't checked for?

> Thanks,

> Jesse

--
Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

 
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