One of the most popular anti-spam feature requests is adding more information to the New Follower email alert so that you can decide whether or not to follow someone just by looking at the email.
wish twitter would let you see a person’s bio in the email you get alerting you to a new follower.
- Twitter user @michaelacton (04/21/08)
If you agree with @michaelaction, check out this thread on Get Satisfaction and add your comments. You can also request this feature here.
People who abuse it spoil this channel and I am not content with another ’social channel’ being spammed. Usenet was spammed, e-mail was spammed, Blogs and wikis are spammed and now Twitter.
- Oliver Gassner: Twitterspam (04/20/08)
Do not want to close my twitter feed but annoyed w/ checking to see who new follows are & finding spam. This is a majorchallenge for twitter
- Twitter user @susanreynolds (04/20/08)
…think of when we get 50 spam adds per day… if Twitter keeps growing it’s not impossible
- Twitter user @ocell (04/20/08)
As if Twitter Spam isn’t bad enough, here comes the racist Twitter Spam…
Laurel Papworth - Social Networks - Twitter: Racism & Values & social spam
Look through their updates and you’ll see the N word, birthday wishers to Hitler, etc. BLOCKED. The worst thing about this? There are 39 PEOPLE FOLLOWING HIM!
If you want to send a message to Twitter that you don’t approve of these views then please take 5 seconds out of your day and block this guy.
From Twitter’s TOS…
For those of you still keeping track, it looks like Andrew Baron is going to move ahead with selling his Twitter account after canceling the auction earlier this week.
4/22/08 Update:
He has decided never to sell this account.
@twitter, you need to set stalking, harassment, spam, SEO tool policies and you need to enforce them! Hassle, I know, but necessary.
- Twitter user @zztype (4/19/08)
