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Administering the Voight-Kampff Test to a Spammer
4Dec2008 Filed under: Geek Author: eddieI was minding my own business on Twitter when I noticed a random spam @ reply from an unknown user.
Encouraged by this user’s random drive-by direct spamming behavior, I decided to determine whether the user was a robot or human spammer. Inspired by a similar thing that recently happened to Bre Pettis over IM, I administered the Voight-Kampff Test to find out. Here’s the exchange:
- Tags: flickr, spammer, twitter, voightkampff
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stevegarfield
December 4th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I get new people following me on twitter who feel the need to say things like:
“Thanks for the follow. Tweet on!”
“Thank you for following my Twitter updates! I hope I can add some value and a smile for you each day.”
“Thanks for following me, let me know if you ever need any streaming media services. “
Frustrating:
“Thanks for following my Tweets! I look forward to getting aquainted! What are you currently working on?”
Dude – read my tweets.
And the most frustratiing of all:
“thanks for the follow…so what do you do?”
Hello? Have you heard about the internet? It's your birthday! Ha ha.
I'll try your test on some of these people.
ekai
December 4th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I love people's enthusiasm, but this guy was just randomly spamming people he didn't know or follow about his granite kitchen counter top business. A perfect candidate for Voight-Kampff!. Would love to see your results, Steve.
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December 4th, 2008 at 9:18 am
[...] this via Bre Pettis on twitter and had a bit of a [...]
maubrowncow
December 12th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Boy, am I glad he didn't say, “Let me tell you about my mother”.
ekai
December 12th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Yeah, that coulda gotten a little messy.
Tammy Harris
February 12th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
your blog is great 520 gratz!