So Twitter has become a way of life for some people. I use it on a daily basis, you can follow me I’m @Zerolove. It is a great communication tool, but when you have something like this the spammers are sure to follow. And follow they do!
So here’s my plan to combat the twitter spam.
Write a bot that takes @tweets with a tag for a user name and adds it to a database. The more @tweets it gets from people for a particular user name, the higher the chance they are a spammer.
For instance lets call the bot’s username Bot and the spammer well Spammer. Lets keep it simple.
zerolove @Bot ~Spammer
So now in the database Spammer is +1, this continues till spammer is say +25.
Then we create a website, that allows a user to put in their twitter information where we pull all their followers. We give a “Spam Range” for the user to pick. Say the user picks +10 so that means 10 people have reported this username as a spammer. So now we give them a list of all the “Spammers” that are following them. One of them being, @Spammer that has +25. There is a link to block @Spammer via twitter.
Now just have to write it… or someone else can. What do you think? Think this could work? A way to automate it would be better, so that users didn’t have to go to the website but set a “Level” and then would block anyone with a high level to start with. I’m sure there is flaws, lets hash them out. Let me know what you think.
