Comments on: Spammers Find Twitter http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2009/05/10/spammers-find-twitter/ Blogging the web, technology, and more. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kyle Barnoff http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2009/05/10/spammers-find-twitter/#comment-114 Kyle Barnoff Mon, 11 May 2009 13:32:53 +0000 http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=492#comment-114 Twitter is on the right track with their blog post that you linked to. I think they should have an incrementing cap system. This cap would allow a user to request to follow 20 people in their first week, 30 their second... ect. Another cap that may work would be a lower following limit followed by a ratio cap. The lower following limit would allow a new user to request to follow 50 users, then they would be required to meet a ratio of following::followers. This ratio could increase slowly over time as a users' credibility increases. These solutions would deter the spamming but still give serious users the freedom they have now. Twitter is on the right track with their blog post that you linked to. I think they should have an incrementing cap system. This cap would allow a user to request to follow 20 people in their first week, 30 their second… ect.

Another cap that may work would be a lower following limit followed by a ratio cap. The lower following limit would allow a new user to request to follow 50 users, then they would be required to meet a ratio of following::followers. This ratio could increase slowly over time as a users’ credibility increases.

These solutions would deter the spamming but still give serious users the freedom they have now.

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