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kentcdodds / twitter-spam-autoblocker

Because we don't have time for spam, nor patience for ignoring it
https://github.com/kentcdodds/twitter-spam-autoblocker
MIT License
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What type of spam/actions is this target? #3

Open DecentGradient opened 8 years ago

DecentGradient commented 8 years ago

Likes? Follows? Dm?

kentcdodds commented 8 years ago

Hey there! So, I get likes, retweets, quoted retweets, @ mentions, and follows from accounts that simply want me to come to their profile to click on a link. I rarely get actual spam tweets. It's normally just a shell profile that has their link in the bio. I manually go to their profile and report them as spam then block them. The "why" of the project is to automate that so I don't even see the notification.

There are several things that make these bots easy to classify. I want to start simple and small and work our way up. Even if we just start with the logic to identify 70% of this kind of spam and turn that into a chrome extension that'd be awesome. Then we could iterate on that.

Hopefully that helps explain my vision for this project.

DecentGradient commented 8 years ago

OK, got. Except for reporting spam, which I believe is not allowed by the api, np. And I assume you error on the side of not blocking some spam and not blocking some legit people. @d3viant0ne

kentcdodds commented 8 years ago

It is possible I believe: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/post/users/report_spam

I would definitely err on the side of not blocking/reporting someone, yes.

DecentGradient commented 8 years ago

I stand corrected. Nice ,one api call report and block.

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It is possible I believe: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/post/users/report_spam

I would definitely err on the side of not blocking/reporting someone, yes.

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