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slig
on Jan 26, 2012
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Twitter Will Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Coun...
They can't even block the most idiotic kind of spam[1], and now they will get this magic NLP working? Ha.
[1] @reply tweets from newly created accounts.
Maxious
on Jan 26, 2012
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Seriously, the spammers aren't even using new messages (bar the infamous @Horse_ebooks). Just ban people saying that exact message with that exact spam URL.
snikolov
on Jan 27, 2012
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I don't follow. Could you point to where it mentioned NLP in the article?
slig
on Jan 27, 2012
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It's not on the article, I implied it because I thought they were going to censor content automatically.
x5315
on Jan 27, 2012
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It's not an automatic censoring. The country sends a request to Twitter.
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[1] @reply tweets from newly created accounts.