twitter detects spam and savory eats it
Unbeknown to me, the other day I started receiving a bunch of these emails from twitter reporting that some of the URLs I have posted in my savory tweets pointed to malware domains.
My first reaction was panic; I turned off the twitter posting functionality.
But then I got another thought in my head.
The emails from twitter don’t suggest whether or not they are marking my account for possible blacklisting; they’re only removing the tweet.
savory has the ability to read emails…see where I’m going with this?
So I decided to give savory the ability to use twitter’s own service to enhance my service : ) It works like this.
- I tweet the URL in my post to twitter.
- I save the bit.ly URL in a “bitly” key in savory
- I create a procmail filter for mail from twitter that resembles their message
- If and when I receive an email from twitter, I call the savory API to retrieve the doc that has the bitly key with the value sent in the twitter email
- I add another key to the document, “twitter_detect”, with a value of “yes” that signifies whether this URL was detected by twitter
Beware, evil genius in the making.