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"Key reduction in a spam metric". Stupid question: if they know what spam is well enough to chart it, then why not just use that to fight it?
by struct 12y ago
"Key reduction in a spam metric". Stupid question: if they know what spam is well enough to chart it, then why not just use that to fight it?
- netrus 12y agoOne such metrics might be user complains, that only appear after it is already too late.
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- ghayes 12y agoUsers can report spam for any tweet ("... More" "Block or report"). I imagine that Twitter would to catch spam before its users do.
- pornel 12y agoThey're fighting spam in realtime, but they can analyze their accuracy later. One example: if you have a rule "sending the same URL 100 times in a row is spamming" then you'll let 99 spams through before you identify that they were spams.