Twitter Is For Spam

by Peter Schink on Jan 24, 2009

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Spam on Twitter is too easy. I created an account and became famous in three weeks. Hopefully the slideshow is warning Twitter to change their API?! It was first shown at Microblogging Conference #mbc0...

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Twitter Is For Spam — Presentation Transcript

#MBC09 Peter Schink, 24.01.2009 The fabulous @jakobmierscheid – OR: Twitter is for SPAM

Twitter API is for SPAM Peter Schink, 05.06.2008

J.M.M.

Einstieg bei Twitter 30.12.2008

so many followers

1. ask some users

All you need is one profile:

http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/userXYZ.xml

What you get:

Names

Locations

Pictures

etc.

AND: more users!!! And more …and more.

2. Use their social graph Collect friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends.

3. get your database jakobmierscheid is collecting… … and looks into the locations.

4. find crowded locations

5. select some users jakobmierscheid is collecting… … and has about 16,000 interesting german users.

5. Find new friends.

6. Thanks! every 7th user is following back.

some know…

… others don’t.

Hype created.

done.

Twitter Is For Spam

by Peter Schink on Jan 24, 2009

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