Re:Ask HN: Review our startup, PubliciTweet
by jmathai on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:30AM
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Valid points. One of our main goals is to curb spam usage. Just to let you know some of the ways we plan on doing that.
1) We'll be introducing a pay model which should weed out the majority of spammers (CTR won't be high enough).
2) A free version will be limiting enough that it won't be worthwhile for spammers.
3) We have an artificial limit placed on "groups" so you can only DM N (500 atm) followers at a time.
If you have other ideas we'd love to hear them. We wouldn't post a site intended for spam on HN :).
In addition to that, I think Twitter should employ more robust emails (or just buy out Topify) that let's you easily block or unfollow users directly from the DM email.
1) We'll be introducing a pay model which should weed out the majority of spammers (CTR won't be high enough).
2) A free version will be limiting enough that it won't be worthwhile for spammers.
3) We have an artificial limit placed on "groups" so you can only DM N (500 atm) followers at a time.
If you have other ideas we'd love to hear them. We wouldn't post a site intended for spam on HN :).
In addition to that, I think Twitter should employ more robust emails (or just buy out Topify) that let's you easily block or unfollow users directly from the DM email.
Thanks for clarifying your original post.