[OSM-talk] Twitter bots

[Mitja Kleider]

Am Montag, 24. August 2009 schrieb John McKerrell:
> On 24 Aug 2009, at 17:03, Andrew Ayre wrote:
> > Alexander - I think if you urlencode a URL before passing it to
> > twitter,
> > twitter will automatically shorten it using the bit.ly service.
> > Might be
> > something to look into. Then neither openstreetmap.org or osm.org will
> > be used for the URLs.
>
> Alternatively would it be worth having the bots add #bot or something
> similar onto their messages and then filtering them out?
You get a list of all bots by looking at the followers of @osm_bots
For now, you could block those accounts.

Mitja