Comments on: The Responsibility of Web App Programmers http://mettadore.com/analysis/the-responsibility-of-web-app-programmers/ Thoughts on Software and Technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:50:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jnpdx http://mettadore.com/analysis/the-responsibility-of-web-app-programmers/#comment-9 jnpdx Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:26:16 +0000 http://mettadore.com/?p=271#comment-9 Interesting idea. I'm actually surprised that Twitter suffers from as little spam as it does, given how easy it is to produce. @Tagalus only reponds to messages sent directly to it, but it did have one somewhat nightmarish incident when the IDs that Twitter assigned to each tweet became longer than the data type that most people used to store them in their databases (unsigned integer). The result was that Tagalus kept responding to people over and over again (every minute actually) because it couldn't "remember" that it had already done it. Luckily I shut it down within about 20 minutes, but it was definitely a scary moment - unintentional spam is a good way to kill your reputation. Interesting idea. I'm actually surprised that Twitter suffers from as little spam as it does, given how easy it is to produce.

@Tagalus only reponds to messages sent directly to it, but it did have one somewhat nightmarish incident when the IDs that Twitter assigned to each tweet became longer than the data type that most people used to store them in their databases (unsigned integer). The result was that Tagalus kept responding to people over and over again (every minute actually) because it couldn't "remember" that it had already done it. Luckily I shut it down within about 20 minutes, but it was definitely a scary moment – unintentional spam is a good way to kill your reputation.

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