Remember when @csgillespie showed an function for `rtweet` by @kearneymw to find hashtag spammers? Tired of manually muting, blocking, spam reporting I added functions to post_mute_nf (mute w/o follow) post_block post_spammer which took ten minutes. Yay. #rstats

Next, a crowd sourced set of filters one can subscribe to followed by a bayesian-trained spam filter than runs as a cron job 😛

No need for a Bayesian spam filter: the genius of the @csgillespie post was to just count hash tags. What I need to add is a query about who is already blocked and then I have all for a cron job. Peace at last! (#stats spam wave y'day, I used the function on 20+ senders).

But you know, soon the spammers will learn so they'll use a refined set of nine hashtags instead of ten, and the war is on.

Asymptotically we will block everybody at which point Twitter will have become an email provider. But they are currently so dumb and use multiple popular hash tags ("maximize eyeballs") that it really is like shooting fish in a barrel. Hence the 10min function, and high 'crit'.