By Eduard Kovacs on August 22, 2014 Spam is highly problematic on Twitter, which is why the social media network has developed a system that helps its efforts to keep users' feeds free of unsolicited or malicious posts.
Dubbed "BotMaker," Twitter's anti-spam system is already being used in production, and the company claims to have observed a 40% reduction in key spam metrics since its introduction.
Because it's crucial for content to be delivered in real-time, anti-spam systems must not add latency to operations carried out by users. On the other hand, because developer APIs are made available to make it easy to interact with the platform, spammers have access to information on how the anti-spam systems work.
When it created BotMaker, Twitter had three main objectives: prevent spam from being created, reduce the amount of time spam is visible to users, and reduce reaction time to new spam runs.
SecurityWeek/ full article here/ http://www.securityweek.com/%E2%80%98botmaker%E2%80%99-helps-twitter-reduce-spam-40-percent
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