Recent content by FiftyShadesOfBlack

And then run the image through OptiPNG or ImageMagick or any other image optimizer to strip out any hidden licensing information in the meta information. This information is commonly embedded by the stock photo companies so they can track their licensing and most people don't know to remove it...

*cough*Blackhatworld*cough* *cough*warriorforum*cough* *cough*IM*cough* Sorry, got a tickle in my throat today.

Has anybody else noticed the spam firehose has lessened somewhat since TA3 stopped working? Not saying it has completely abated as there are still people out there following and spamming with other methods and mostly private bots and scripts, but I've noticed a marked drop-off in the auto...

The .ta3 are encrypted SQLite databases. You use the strings command to dump all known strings from the TA executable and look for the encryption password to the SQLite database. It is stored in plain text when I did this a few years back. This works on Windows with cygwin installed for the...

That really has nothing to do with the original question. Someone wanted information on how to extract their existing data from an obsolete tool. Read more, write less.

This will dump all of the strings in the TweetAdder executable (assumes UNIX/Linux/Cygwin) strings TweetAdder.exe This will dump all of the tables in the database after you open it with SQLite command line tool: select * from sqlite_master; From there you can just run a query select on the...

IIRC TweetAdder stores its data in encrypted SQLite databases. I don't remember the passphrase off the top of my head but you can extract the passphrase from the executable and then use sqlite.exe at the command line to open the .ta3 file and dump out the tables using some simple SQL.

I do, but I don't tend to share it out. You can PM me or email me.

It is a private bot that I wrote for myself when TA3 ceased to work. It works for my needs, though the user interface is ugly as hell. Edit: Exclusive license to the source code is available for those with deep enough pockets.

Huh, nice idea. Added it to my bot. Pointing it at Mashable account to see what happens when I favourite the people who RT the mashable posts. Not sure I want to RT the RTs right now as I am on my personal account. I so need to set up a few test accounts to try out experiments on. With regard...

That I don't know. I am guessing it is probably based on a few factors, but nothing concrete that I can say "don't do this." Sorry. I suspect recruiters can probably view more than 700 profiles per day but... I suspect that recruiters that pay for the full recruiter account get a little more...

Yes, LinkedIn tracks how many "actions" you perform, viewing profiles are the most expensive of all, my bot will usually trigger at around 700 to 1,000 profile views before triggering the anti-robot response. The error you get is on purpose and to prevent abuse. If you constantly trigger the...

Duplicate content? Send a polite "please don't do this request." If they ignore it after 7 days, or respond with the middle finger, find their hosting provider, send a DMCA take down to their hosting provider, send DMCA requests to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo! (the big four), then use the...

^^^^^ This x10,000 There are people out there with bots and source code ready to sell. You could have a private bot or build an entire TweetAdder like business by selling your own bot. There's an awful lot of ballers and BS artists out there claiming they're killing it on Twitter to the tune of...

In another thread someone said this: "Furthermore, the option to follow the Retweeters of a specific Tweet qould be gold. If you could follow all the Retweeters of the follow trains you would gain like crazy." I am a clueless Twitter person. Anybody care to explain what this is and how it...