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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by slig on Sunday March 20, 2011 @09:53PM (#2348063)
> Why shouldn't Twitter target trends at me?

Maybe they can't. They sure lack some core competence by not being able to block obvious spam accounts (Newly created accounts that: posts trend spam, do mass following and mass @mention, etc).

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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by ceejayoz on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:45AM (#2348514)
I'd love to hear someone from Twitter explain why the service seems to lack even basic automated spam detection. The only mechanism that seems to exist is the "report as spam", which takes so long to suspend an account I wouldn't be surprised if the process was manual.
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Re:Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive by Duff on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:42PM (#2348356)
Knowing nothing about it, it seems to me that you could curate a semi-automatic solution pretty quickly.

(ie. Look, this guy follows Cisco's Datacenter Twitter account... let's show him stuff from Juniper's datacenter team, etc)

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