An Apple a Day: Top Ten Rants on Twitter
No surprise - Spam makes the list at #9
An Apple a Day: Top Ten Rants on Twitter
No surprise - Spam makes the list at #9
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.
Bloggers Blog: Services and Tools Emerge to Fight Twitter Spam
Bloggers Blog gives an overview of the tools and services that are emerging to fight Twitter Spam, such as Twerp Scan, Twitter Blacklist, @oddpost, and this here site.
Horse, Pig Cow: Tweeting for Companies 101
Tara Hunt gives some great guidelines for companies who are getting started on Twitter.
Mashable: Twitter Vigilantes Step Up to Solve Spam Problem
Thanks Mashable for the shout out!
Get Satisfaction: Some nasty techniques used by Twitter Spammers
This is what we are up against.
Get Satisfaction > How should obvious Twitter spam accounts be reported?
There is a lively discussion going on about how to report Twitter Spam. If you have an opinion on this, join in on the conversation.
New Follower email includes link to spammer’s web site
New issue posted to Get Satisfaction. If you agree that this is an issue, please follow the item.
A must-read article from Information Week on the Twitter Spam problem.
I can imagine other mission critical uses of Twitter and Jaiku and my only hope is that the people who run both figure out how to deal with the spammers before the spammers do to those infrastructures what they’ve already done to the Internet’s e-mail system (ruin it).
Webomatica - Rooting Out Fake Spammy Twitterers
Webomatica has a great post today about how to root out Twitter Spammers. Everyone take 10 minutes today, go through your list of Followers, and root out the spam!