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Tag: spam detection

A new form of Twitter spam?

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-06-04

Since a couple of weeks I have been attracting a new form of spambots. It took me a couple of minutes to realise that the accounts were probably not controlled by humans. Here’s what I get: I receive email that Aurora Santee (@Ritanbrj) favorited one of your Tweets!. The tweet was in Dutch and nothing […]

Tags spam detection, Twitter

Technology

Finding bad edits in the Open Library catalogue: ideas

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-01-31

Note: this post may be updated to accomodate other ideas or replace ideas. The Open Library catalogue can be edited by anyone. That became a problem when a wave of spam bots had found it last year. Now only users capable of deciphering the captcha can edit. There has always been some spam. I have […]

Tags machine learning, Open Library, spam detection