Today Robert Scoble blogged about some new proposals for charging a premium for people who follow lots of people on Twitter. He rejects the idea and disputes the claim that users such as himself, Lea Laporte, or Jason Calacanis put more “strain” on Twitter’s system.
I’m not even going to attempt to get into that […]
Stephen Tann has an interesting proposal for reducing spam on Twitter. Charge extra if you follow more than $200 people.
All accounts can post unlimited tweets for free. Twitter needs content to create value for the user base (hello Livejournal, remember that? Free accounts generate the content that make the paid accounts valuable).
Free and subscriber […]
An Apple a Day: Top Ten Rants on Twitter
No surprise - Spam makes the list at #9
Andrew Kinnear hits the nail on the head with his take on how to use Twitter as a marketing channel. Let your customers do the talking…
If I’ve got a product or service and I want to spread the word virally, then all I really need is a hard-core group of influencers– a seeding group. […]
Twitter Product Manager Jason Goldman provided an update today on Twitter’s plans for fixing the Track Spam issue. Here’s part of that update:
1) Track is a feature that allows you to receive (via sms or im) all Twitter updates matching certain search terms. A common use is to track one’s own name. This is useful […]
TechCrunch has a post today about Twitter Spam titled Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers. I actually think the post is going to confuse some people. It mentions The Twitter Blacklist, which is not affiliated with Twitter, and a recent post on Stay N Alive, which covers a recent discussion on the Twitter Dev discussion […]
ProBlogger: 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence
Some good tips for getting more people to follow you without resorting to automated “Friend Adder” tools.
Social Times has pointed out a subtle change that Twitter has made in the last couple of days. You can now see who is following someone on Twitter.
Why is this interesting to me?
Have you ever looked at an obvious spammer’s profile (e.g. Following 25,000 but only 100 following back) and wondered who is following […]
There haven’t been too many official updates from Twitter about the spam issue. We know that they’re “working on it” but the updates have been few and far between. Tonight we got one of those updates from Twitter product manager goldtoe. The update, which appeared on Get Satisfaction, addresses “follower spam”, an […]
