Spammers Might Ruin Twitter Trending Topics
One of the most powerful features of Twitter is Trending Topics, which shows the topics that are popular on Twitter right now. The visibility of Trending Topics was greatly expanded a little over a month ago when it was added to the main Twitter.com page along with the ability to search. But there’s a problem. Opportunistic spammers have discovered that the trending topics pages get a lot of page views. To take advantage of this, they’re starting to load up tweets with the trending topics. For example, here’s a screenshot showing a tweet that includes two current trending topics: Star Trek and Dollhouse.
But the tweet includes a link that has absolutely nothing to do with those topics. Twitter will need to get a handle on this soon because or else Trending Topics will become a wasteland of spam links. What can you do to help? If you see someone littering the Trending Topics with spam, report them to @spam.
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