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forwardslash · 4017 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler?
Really good overview of how bots work. I'd love to hear a talk or something from someone who works on a big website's anti-bot / spam team. Detecting these bots has to be at least as hard as creating them. Another thing that strikes me is that the reason these spammers can expand like they do is because of Twitter's API and the ease of account creation. I wonder if they could start over how twitter would design their API and its policies.