How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions

Re:How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Su... by hoop on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:04AM (#1601089)

Hi akkartik,

You make a good point, however Twitter's ToS was quite different back then. Their current TOS was updated: September 18, 2009 (this date can be found at the bottom of today's TOS)

That's around the same time my bot was suspended and Twitter's spam rates started to drop from ~10% to 1%

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Re:How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Su... by akkartik on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:12AM (#1601116)

Hmm, so they made their ToS looser around the time they booted you? That doesn't make sense..

I'm not sure there's any disagreement here. I'm just saying: I think what you did would require human judgement to kick no matter how they write their ToS.

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Re:How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Su... by hoop on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:24AM (#1601147)

It's not just that they changed their TOS. They also started to take a stronger stance against spam. In addition to publicly announcing "we WILL actively suspend the accounts of spammers" they followed through and probably beefed up their anti-spam staff.

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