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)
I already knew there would be a great range of different types of (possible) outcomes. But I believed that I would be able to manage the outcome by trying to make a positive outcome for the buyer, for my friends and followers. Even if it wasn’t a good fit, I (believed) I could work with them. But after I heard that they were all just spam marketers, that just kind of killed it for me and I didn’t want to risk that.
- Andrew Baron (Rocketboom), explaining why he deleted the auction for his Twitter account
CNET Geek Gestault (04/17/08)
Others are doing this too. Adding THOUSANDS of twitter followers for the sole purpose of getting lots of hits on linkbaiting blog posts, lame photos on flickr and useless videos on youtube. I applaud them for their (lack of) effort. It really shows that they have a keen grasp on the importance of quantity over quality.
- i am indisposed, Social Media Best Practices #6: Avoid being Twitterspam…
Twitter is good for exactly one spam. Once you lose that trust you people stop following you, period.
- Sean Riser, Twitter Spam (04/17/08)
@loseweightnow just followed me and is BLATANT SPAM, getting a lot of these every day now, Twitter’s gotta deal with this
- Twitter user @ons (04/17/08)
If you have exponentially more follows versus followers, I probably won’t follow you back. That probably means you’re either following me for no other reason than to pollute my attention (spam), or you’re just completely random and unselective in who you allow to cloud your own attention. I suspect Twitter users with a 3:1 ratio of follows versus followers, or any number of follows greater than 500.
- AttentionMax: Five Strategies To Cultivate A Meaningful Twitter Community (04/16/08)
