Fedora Magazine URL's marked as spam?

[Momcilo Medic]

Hi friends!

I've taken over @FedoraSrbija Twitter account in effort of revitalizing
it.

I was trying to post two different tweets from this and my private
account and both failed with the message:
"This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users
from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action
right now. Please try again later."

Exact wording is as follows. First tweet:
"Problem sa niskom slavinom? Fedora i tu pomaže :) Ukratko o koracima u
3D štampi: http://fedoramagazine.org/3d-printing-in-fedora-from-an-idea
-to-the-thing/"
Translated:
"Troubles with low tap? Fedora can help there as well :) Short overview
of 3D printing steps: http://fedoramagazine.org/3d-printing-in-fedora-f
rom-an-idea-to-the-thing/"

Second tweet:
"Podešavanje raznih #Telegram klijenata u Fedori: 
http://fedoramagazine.org/telegram-in-fedora/"
Translated:
"Setting up various #Telegram clients in Fedora: 
http://fedoramagazine.org/telegram-in-fedora/"

Is this known issue with Twitter?
Is there anything we can do?

I guess some link obscuring may help, but it doesn't feel right doing
so.

[Joe Brockmeier]

On 07/23/2015 10:49 AM, Momcilo Medic wrote:
> "This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users
> from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action
> right now. Please try again later."

Odd, we've seen a few of these lately, I think. I wonder if it was on
the same day?

Best,

jzb

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:54:42AM -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> > "This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users
> > from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action
> > right now. Please try again later."
>
> Odd, we've seen a few of these lately, I think. I wonder if it was on
> the same day?

It's happening to me _right now_. I sent a request to Twitter asking
them to unblock it, but nothing has happened.

[Joe Brockmeier]

On 07/27/2015 10:28 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> It's happening to me _right now_. I sent a request to Twitter asking
> them to unblock it, but nothing has happened.

How did you make the request? I know a few folks at Twitter, I can poke
around to see if we can get this fixed but I don't want to bug them
unless we've hit the right channels and given it reasonable time.

Best,

jzb

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> > It's happening to me _right now_. I sent a request to Twitter asking
> > them to unblock it, but nothing has happened.
>
> How did you make the request? I know a few folks at Twitter, I can poke
> around to see if we can get this fixed but I don't want to bug them
> unless we've hit the right channels and given it reasonable time.

By filling out the form. And I did that... I dunno, Wednesday? Since
this is pretty bad for us, it'd be awesome if you could talk to your
contacts.

My assumption is that it's triggered by too many people using the
"tweet this!" button on each article, resulting in some number of
pre-composed identical tweets about the same thing. But... those
buttons are everywhere on the web. Are they doing something that we
aren't?

[Joe Brockmeier]

On 07/27/2015 10:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> My assumption is that it's triggered by too many people using the
> "tweet this!" button on each article, resulting in some number of
> pre-composed identical tweets about the same thing. But... those
> buttons are everywhere on the web. Are they doing something that we
> aren't?

Urgh. I dunno. Will ping Dave and see what I can find out.

[Chris Roberts]

Nothing has changed on the site backend that could have caused this.

- Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Brockmeier" 
To: "Matthew Miller" , "Fedora Marketing team" 
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 10:50:59 AM
Subject: Re: Fedora Magazine URL's marked as spam?

On 07/27/2015 10:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> My assumption is that it's triggered by too many people using the
> "tweet this!" button on each article, resulting in some number of
> pre-composed identical tweets about the same thing. But... those
> buttons are everywhere on the web. Are they doing something that we
> aren't?

Urgh. I dunno. Will ping Dave and see what I can find out.

[Joe Brockmeier]

On 07/28/2015 05:09 AM, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Nothing has changed on the site backend that could have caused this.

Good to know, thanks!

Note that I've pinged a contact at Twitter and they've escalated
internally. We'll see if anything shakes loose, if not - I'll ping again
later this week.

Best,

jzb
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Brockmeier" 
> To: "Matthew Miller" , "Fedora Marketing team" 
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 10:50:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora Magazine URL's marked as spam?
>
> On 07/27/2015 10:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > My assumption is that it's triggered by too many people using the
> > "tweet this!" button on each article, resulting in some number of
> > pre-composed identical tweets about the same thing. But... those
> > buttons are everywhere on the web. Are they doing something that we
> > aren't?
>
> Urgh. I dunno. Will ping Dave and see what I can find out.