delbius: Archive

but how DO you turn it off?

I go to Yelp to do a search only to see, up at the top: Okay, whatever. I don’t want my experience personalized, though I get why people might. I don’t hate it, I just don’t want it. I go to turn it off on Facebook, as per the information on the “options” dropdown on Yelp. There, I see … Wait, it’s not available for me yet? But it’s on!...

May 5th

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Rogue OAuth Apps: Like Vampires, You Must Invite...

Tweet this! As most of you reading this blog know, I lead Twitter’s Trust and Safety department. Two of my teams are API Policy and Spam. While these teams have a number of responsibilities, they also both work to find and suspend bad apps that appear on Twitter. Sometimes, though, bad apps surface and trick users into authorizing them before we can suspend them. Given the variety of bad apps...

Apr 20th

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Passwords: Srs Business

Tweet this link on Twitter if you want others to read it. You guys, seriously. Seriously, you guys. Password security is super-important. I know you’ve heard this a lot, but given the preponderance of accounts that are “hacked” due to weak passwords or other poor practices around password security, it appears that at least some of you are not listening. While this list...

Jan 26th

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Tweet this link on Twitter if you want others to read it. Ever wondered how, exactly, phishing works and what happens once an account is phished? While there’s any number of reasons why someone might try to gain access to someone’s email or Facebook account or Twitter account, the most common reason for bulk phishing attempts is simply to make money via spam. Perhaps you’ve...

Jan 25th

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Content Agnosticism

Tweet this link on Twitter if you want others to read it. My role at Twitter is to enforce our policies (which are by nature agnostic to specific beliefs and viewpoints) and protect (as well as fight for) our users. I use my Twitter account (@delbius) to interact not only with users but also with friends. I answer what questions I can; I direct people to what help resources I know of; I...

Jan 12th

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#wikileaks

Tweet this link on Twitter if you want others to read it. We’ve sent reporters and the like this information already, but I’ve seen a lot of @ replies from folks asking about this, so, from our comms team, here it goes in an easily-linkable-for-me-format: Twitter is not censoring #wikileaks, #cablegate or other related terms from the Trends list of trending topics. Our Trends list...

Dec 8th

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Dir. of Trust and Safety, or: How I Learned to...

Tweet this link on Twitter if you want others to read it. When I started working at Twitter in October of 2008, my assigned territory resembled nothing so much as the proverbial Wild West of the olden days — lawless, sprawling, and full of tumbleweeds. As the only person at Twitter solely focused on the problem of spam, I had free rein to develop policies as I saw fit. Over the next two...

Oct 15th

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Oct 7th

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Oct 6th

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Well?

“Did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?”

Jul 6th

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WDYDWYD?

Tweet this link on Twitter if you want others to read it. As the head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, I’ve been asked more than a few times exactly what it is that my team does at Twitter, and the response is invariably something along the lines of “it’s too much to cover in 140 characters.” Trust and Safety has a simple mission statement: to keep user trust and...

Jun 16th

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not amused.

Jun 3rd

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To the person who got to my tumblr searching for...

Message your hosting provider. Seriously, it was the only way I could do it.

May 30th

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meetings today.

to the pain!

May 4th

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1 tag

I may be dead but I’m still pretty. Buffy

Apr 3rd

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1 tag

yes.

Would I rather be feared or loved? Um… Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me. - The Office

Apr 2nd

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#sxsw

Things attended so far: Securing Web Behemoths Can You Copyright a Tweet? What Can Carl Sagan Teach Us About The Web? Micmacs Should the Government Tweet? Trolls to Stars: the Commenter System Twitter Keynote RT: I’m Going to Kill Myself - Preventing Suicide Online Still to go: MacGruber Other things

Mar 16th

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QR Codes: Easier Than I Thought.

I’ve heard about QR codes for some time but had never really delved into them much — now that I’m headed to SXSW to speak on a panel about “Securing Web Behemoths,” though, I decided it was time. Cue a helpful post from Lifehacker about a QR-Code generator — http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ — and I created a QR code to test. I have an iPhone, so I downloaded...

Mar 9th

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Eggs. Hard-baked eggs.

Tonight, I discovered that by putting eggs on the middle rack of an oven, baking them at 325 degrees for 30 minutes, submerging them in ice water and, after they cool, peeling them under running water, you can successfully “hardboil” (hard-bake?) 24 eggs at once (or really, however many your oven can hold. Awesome. To recap: Put eggs on middle rack of unheated oven. Put baking...

Feb 27th

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oh, look.

I checked out Flavors.me and created flavors.me/delbius; who knows, maybe I’ll make www.delbius.com direct to there. Apparently I have to figure out how to change an A Record. I don’t know where to find one. That’s okay. Today’s soundtrack: Princess Superstar. Who is, coincidentally (or not coincidentally at all, but as extra information), on Twitter as @psuperstar.

Feb 25th

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Google searches this morning: Make cat stop meowing Cat meows food morning stop Train cat out of meowing for food Amount not slept due to cat: 50 extra minutes Feelings: saddened, sleepy, sullen

Feb 22nd

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Fact:

I have never, ever drunk tea during teatime at work.

Feb 20th

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“Just try to keep your pants on, okay?”

– @meangrape

Sep 1st

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“Are you giving me sexy face?” “No, I’m giving you confused...”

Aug 26th