…a long term defense will have to come from the developers at Twitter. They will have to implement a solution that requires you to approve followers before they can show up in your list, or they will have to implement a timed follow limit that will prevent people from following more than five people in a twenty minute period. That way it would be a pain for would be Twitter spammers to follow people by the thousands.
- Open Source Marketer: How To Fight Twitter Spam (04/24/08)
Spam is everywhere, it’s mass, it’s personal, it’s viral and now it’s on Twitter. Twam is really baffling me and consuming a fair amount of my strategic thought.
- nicharalambous.com: Twam - The new spam from Twitter (04/23/08)
Lately, I’ve received notifications that I’m being followed by those who’ve set up Twitter accounts strictly for marketing purposes. For example, I’ve tweeted that I was about to go on a diet. Within a day or two of mentioning that, I received notices that @flatbellydietin, @trxworkout and @weightlossdie were following me. … Are we facing a trend where marketers/advertisers will use apps like Tweet Scan to search for prospects (suspects)? I’m thinking so. And I’m concerned about the consequences.
- Paul Chaney (Conversational Marketing): Tweet Scan a tool for marketers to spam you? (04/22/08)
wondering if twitter has just become another spam delivery chute.
- Twitter user @chesspark (04/22/08)
The strength of Twitter is its “one to many” messaging ability, but from a marketing perspective the “many” have to want the message and even if you agree to follow (i.e receive messages from) a company, there is an implicit level of incoming traffic that you will not tolerate. The marketing danger here is that the combination of the ease of sending the short message form and the flow/stream aesthetic of Twitter will lead to abuse of that permission. Because of the limited size of the Twitter page, such behaviours will quickly become spam of the worst kind.
- John Dodds (Make Marketing History): Twitter Spam (04/22/08)
I am being followed by livercancer, toothacherelief, toshibaflat and freepspgamedownload welcome to spam-free Twitter
- Twitter user @jpostman (04/22/08)
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)
@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)
