Jul
20
stop_jackin_it.php
I’ve been getting inundated by followers who appear to be normal people with a healthy number of followers, but have links to xurl.jp spiced throughout their timeline which resolve to… wait for it… porn.
I’m sick of it. So I did something about it. I cronned this script on my computer and you should to. It will run a search for the string xurl.jp and block anyone posting links to this site. It will only deal with this particular spammer, but it’s better than doing this manually.
The best part about it is the blocks.create method isn’t rate-limited. Thanks Twitter!
Hopefully you won’t lose too many followers! I think I lost about 10…
Important!
Please don’t include the text xurl.jp in any tweets about this post, or my script will block you too!
