Twitter details BotMaker, its anti-spam system that has curbed junk tweets by 40%
If you’ve used Twitter for any length of time, you’ve come in contact with its massive underbelly of spam. Today, the company shared details of its BotMaker anti-spam system, which has contributed to a 40 percent drop in Twitter’s own spam metrics since it was introduced. As Twitter notes, one of the difficulties it faces in combating unwanted content is that spammer “know (almost) everything” about its counter-measures because of the developer API. The real-time nature of Twitter also means that any systems must operate without adding latency to the service. BotMaker is governed by three guiding principles, according to Twitter: “prevent…
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