I never check the new follower notification e-mails with any urgency now as I know it’s just a spambot. Very boring.
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OH: “I never check the new follower notification…”
August 5, 2008 – 9:31 am
Spammers Using Twitter to Distribute Malware
August 5, 2008 – 8:47 am
Kaspersky Lab has identified a Twitter profile that was set up to distribute malware. There is quite a bit of coverage of this story on TechMeme today. It appears that Twitter is moving very quickly to remove these accounts as they are identified.
Update (8/6/08):
Biz Stone from Twitter posted this on the Twitter blog [...]
Twitter Stumbles Again With Accidental Account Deletions
August 2, 2008 – 2:26 pm
Twitter’s anti-spam efforts took another step backwards yesterday. Several people had their accounts deleted for no apparent reason. When they attempted to restore their accounts they saw this message:
This account has been suspended due to violations of the Terms of Service. If you have questions, please contact customer support.
It’s important to note that [...]
Update on Twitter’s Following Limits
July 29, 2008 – 3:41 pm
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about Twitter’s new following limits. The main issue has been that businesses and people who follow a lot of people can’t add new followers, even though they are not spamming people and their Following:Followers ratio is reasonable - e.g. 2:1, 1.5:1, etc.
I’ve been pretty vocal about this, [...]
Here Comes the Direct Message Spam
July 28, 2008 – 11:56 am
What’s worse than @ Reply spam from someone that you don’t know? Direct Message spam from someone that you’re already following. 1 Good Reason - Internet Marketing has the details. This is a guaranteed way to lose your followers.
Here’s the text of the spammy DM:
Hey Everyone, Sending you all an Invite.kwippy invite [...]
Are You Following @Johng77536?
July 27, 2008 – 2:26 pm
Earlier today, TechCruch broke a story about Twitter user @johng77536 (account has been deleted). As of the writing of this blog post, this user is following 0 but has over 7,000 followers. And there is another account (account has now been deleted) linking to the same site (hotmoda.com) with over 9,000 followers.
TechCrunch speculates [...]
Twitter’s New Business Model?
July 24, 2008 – 10:51 am
I saw this clever Photoshop job in the comments of ReadWriteWeb’s post about the recent Following/Follower counts fiasco.
Update (8/11/08):
There is renewed speculation that Twitter will roll out a Pro plan that allows you to get past the new follow limits.
David Risley: Twitter Limits To 2,000 Followers. Could They Charge To Lift the Limit?
Scripting News: Twitter [...]
Read WriteWeb: “New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos”
July 24, 2008 – 7:58 am
ReadWriteWeb suspects that there is a connection between the controversial new follow limits and yesterday’s major issue with follower / following counts going down. Twitter hasn’t acknowledged any connection (yet).
While we appreciate the fact that the Twitter team is fighting the spam problem … you would think that they would have considered this potential [...]
@ Reply Spam - Please Go Away
July 23, 2008 – 3:52 pm
Perhaps the most annoying form of spam on Twitter is @ Reply Spam, which is something that Dave Winer predicted many months ago. This is where someone sends you a spammy tweet directly using an @ Reply. You’ll see the spam tweet While this shouldn’t show up in your Replies tab (unless you’re [...]
Twitter’s Spam Detection Algorithm Needs Some Tweaking
July 22, 2008 – 2:28 pm
ZDnet reported earlier today that a number of Twitter power users aren’t able to add new followers because of the new limits that Twitter has been put in place to discourage spammers. Pandora Community Manager Lucia Willow is one of the people who was caught up in this. She recently [...]
