Taking care of @ColoradoTweets
May 28th, 2009
Today the COTweeters group-tweet list (where anyone can send their tweets to the group, and the whole group gets them) succumbed to spam-bots. It had been getting worse and worse in the past four weeks.
The bot-spammers are now winning over on COTweets, so I went and created a new Colorado group-tweet list, ColoradoTweets, that works in much the same way, but has a few more rules that should help keep it from turning into a noisy ugly hot mess.
To break it down:
- Only tweets that *start* with (as opposed to contain) @ColoradoTweets will be published. This fixes one of COTweeters’ weaknesses.
- Any tweet with “RT” in it, or “Follow Friday” (and variants) will be ignored.
- If @ColoradoTweets isn’t following you, you can tweet to it, but those tweets won’t be broadcast to the group until @ColoradoTweets follows you.
- Abusing the list with repetitive, promotional tweets, is a sure ticket to a blocking.
The goal here is to have a list that takes the pulse of Colorado folk on twitter, that can help people who have questions about something Colorado, and is interesting. Thoughts? Post ’em here.
-Joe
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4 comments on “Taking care of @ColoradoTweets”
01
Really pleased to see your coloradotweets. I wasn’t up to coding a solution for the very real problem we were having on cotweeters. If there is anything i can do to help out let me know.
02
Hey Joe. Care to share the code you used to make this?
03
Hey Hubs,
Good question — I should get it up on google code. It’s not perfect right now, and it’s not in a repository, but getting it out there would be useful to others.
-Joe
04
Would like to use the code too – glad to see a replacement for @cotweeters.
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