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Twitter Spam Takes It To A New Level

Posted by on May 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

There should be an image here!As many of you already know, Twitter spam is nothing new. It’s been around for some time; most of us have had to deal with it to some extent or another. But now it appears that, this time, we are also beginning to see it in Twitter games, as well. Great.

To be completely clear, it is not really the game doing the spamming. No, it is people who are being encouraged with prizes for tweeting relentlessly about the game that are, to a degree, doing the spamming. But even so, it is still a frustration when a game is encouraging people to try this kind of behavior in the first place.

Frankly, until Twitter is able to get some better management tools for handling spam, such as hash tags management, being bombed with crap tweets appears to be a problem that is not showing much in the way of letting up. Sure, you can protect your updates and block individual users, but this is simply not helping.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Schooneveld/1669328899 Roger Schooneveld

    just custom build a pc. They all run windows anyway.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1433630381 Savorian Regina Smith Couch

    I dunno…I’ve been a die hare HP fan for a long time. Even with all the upsets, it’s going to be hard for me to be completely angry at them. I forgive easily :)

  • Anonymous

    HP’s customer service is deplorable. I had bought an all-in-one printer and had no need to use the scan function for the first year. At that time, I couldn’t figure out how to make certain settings global. The manual and Help options were useless. I set up a Chat session. They told me that the warranty had expired and they were going to charge me $25(?) for the answer. I disconnected, did a Google search and found out I couldn’t do what I wanted to do (although I could do it on an older HP all-in-one I had). So they were going to charge me $25 to tell me the newer machine didn’t have the software capability a much older machine had.

    The kicker is that I wasn’t asking them to fix the machine – just to clear up poor documentation. The warranty should have had nothing to do with it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FH2VRRUZX7KF6434DGPNJICQVY bob3160

    Hello Ron,
    I couldn’t agree more. I just purchase a new laptop and chose a Dell Inspiron.
    Since I already own 2 others and have always been happy with them, there really wasn’t any other choice for me.

  • Anonymous

    I had a Hp that crashed and the recovery disc was damged. I got a Dell recover disc and the machine came back to life but kept downloading Hp updates for the MB and proprietary diagnostics until it reverted back to a Hp about a year later.
    It could be something like how Asus started to become the outsource go to for Dell and years later there is no real Dell anymore and Asus builds the entire machine under many brand names for just about anyone that wants a Asus machine.

  • Robert Rochelle

    I used to be a real HP fan. That ended after they outsourced customer service. After a couple of really frustrating experiences I’ll have nothing to do with them anymore. I still own and use some HP cameras, scanners, & printers, but I’ve bought 3 computers, 2 all-in-one printers, and a camera since my last HP purchase. As long as their customer service stays as poor as it is there will not be another HP purchase.