Comments on: Quickpost: Disinformational Tweets http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/ (blog 'DidierStevens) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jordan http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/#comment-34933 Mon, 11 May 2009 00:55:16 +0000 http://blog.didierstevens.com/?p=1400#comment-34933 That’s true — depending on your personal guidelines for who you add or don’t add, that might or might not add much disinformation. Then again, if you have the timeline available for when someone added someone else, you might be able to more accurately map who was a “real” follow, versus who was just a reciprocating follow.

I’d be curious to see a study in the general case — what information is available, and to what degree it survives disinformation. I suspect that even with a fair amount of bogus data the good data can still be filtered through relatively effectively.

]]> By: Didier Stevens http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/#comment-34928 Sun, 10 May 2009 19:09:08 +0000 http://blog.didierstevens.com/?p=1400#comment-34928 That’s an idea too! I’m not concerned about that network mapping, since I follow back most followers. Guess that’s pretty random too.

]]> By: Jordan http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/#comment-34927 Sun, 10 May 2009 19:05:46 +0000 http://blog.didierstevens.com/?p=1400#comment-34927 That’s funny. I was thinking of something very similar this morning. It was less focused on disinformational tweets themselves, and more focused on adding random people to your follow list to disrupt automatic social-network mapping attempts.

]]> By: securitydreamer http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/#comment-34926 Sun, 10 May 2009 16:14:28 +0000 http://blog.didierstevens.com/?p=1400#comment-34926 Like Mad Libs for Twitter

]]> By: Didier Stevens http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/#comment-34923 Sun, 10 May 2009 13:50:03 +0000 http://blog.didierstevens.com/?p=1400#comment-34923 Excellent point. They could use this to create less suspicious accounts…

]]> By: livibetter http://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/05/10/quickpost-disinformational-tweets/#comment-34922 Sun, 10 May 2009 13:47:20 +0000 http://blog.didierstevens.com/?p=1400#comment-34922 If spammers find this, they will use this to avoid being blocked and we couldn’t really sure if that is a spammer or not. Sigh, good things can always be used for bad purpose.

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