Comments on: Twitter Spam Is Trending

By: Anime Pepsi ~ Windows Fanatics

Anime Pepsi ~ Windows Fanatics — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:24:05 +0000

[...] sad when Twitter spam is a trending [...]

By: Hotrao

Hotrao — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:52:08 +0000

I agree spam, especially in the cases presented is really not only low class, but also pure speculation.

Control over followers could be a good thing, but could frustrate some people digital ego measured on number of followers instead of quality of content. In my opinion is preferrable to have less followers and readers but true and “aficionados” instead than having a lot of followers and lot of spammers.

So it’s circle: those with the most followers are more exposed to spammers but at the same time are also, mostly, those that cannot (or don’t want) to control followers.

By: Billy Doyle

Billy Doyle — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:11:39 +0000

Unfortunately I think this is just the natural progression of anything useful these days.

Elliott Kember has a tool out called Blocky, where people can vote on whether an account is a spammer or not. it connects via Oauth to auto-block all the ones marked spammers. (http://blocky.elliottkember.com/)

By: How Has Social Media Changed Your Life? | Chris Pirillo

How Has Social Media Changed Your Life? | Chris Pirillo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:38:41 +0000

[...] It’s sad when Twitter Spam is a trending topic. [...]