Comments for Stop Twitter Spam http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog Let's keep Twitter spam free! Sat, 17 May 2008 02:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Steve Gillmor is fighting Track Spam by admin http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/steve-gillmor-is-fighting-track-spam/#comment-271 admin Mon, 12 May 2008 00:52:12 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=239#comment-271 Prokofy, I was wondering what took you so long to find this. :) Prokofy, I was wondering what took you so long to find this. :)

]]> Comment on Steve Gillmor is fighting Track Spam by Prokofy Neva http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/steve-gillmor-is-fighting-track-spam/#comment-270 Prokofy Neva Sun, 11 May 2008 22:31:38 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=239#comment-270 >she constantly cuts off anyone who tries to engage in the discussion with her I think any normal person listening to this who is outside the Gillmor Gang and its magic circle understands how appalling this claim is. I'm the one not allowed to get in a word edgewise, and constantly stepped on. It's truly an outrage. And why Twitter devs need to go very slow in putting in track block because it will encourage swarming and gesture farming just as Steve wants it to in order to maintain rigid control over social media by a few people. This News Gang show is a good example of how social media isn't really in the public interest and isn't serving the public commons as it is too easily grabbed and wielded by a few special interests in ways not as visible as old media was. http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/04/theyre-all-bozo.html >she constantly cuts off anyone who tries to engage in the discussion with her

I think any normal person listening to this who is outside the Gillmor Gang and its magic circle understands how appalling this claim is. I’m the one not allowed to get in a word edgewise, and constantly stepped on. It’s truly an outrage.

And why Twitter devs need to go very slow in putting in track block because it will encourage swarming and gesture farming just as Steve wants it to in order to maintain rigid control over social media by a few people.

This News Gang show is a good example of how social media isn’t really in the public interest and isn’t serving the public commons as it is too easily grabbed and wielded by a few special interests in ways not as visible as old media was.

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/04/theyre-all-bozo.html

]]> Comment on @Scobleizer, @AndrewBadera and others discuss Twitter Spam by Andrew Badera http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/scobleizer-andrewbadera-and-others-discuss-twitter-spam/#comment-97 Andrew Badera Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:19:09 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=161#comment-97 http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/2008/04/stoptwitterspam-and-my-argument-with.html ..When I mentioned it on Twitter, and mentioned my stand on Scoble's mass-adding formula -- aka, a formula for Twam -- Robert Scoble engaged me in a bit of a heated discussion.. http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/2008/04/stoptwitterspam-and-my-argument-with.html

..When I mentioned it on Twitter, and mentioned my stand on Scoble’s mass-adding formula — aka, a formula for Twam — Robert Scoble engaged me in a bit of a heated discussion..

]]> Comment on Hey A-List Twitterers - do you know who you’re following? by admin http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/hey-a-list-twitterers-do-you-know-who-is-following-you/#comment-71 admin Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:22:12 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=147#comment-71 Thanks Graham for the feedback. Regarding the auto-follow script, there appear to be some scripts floating around out there and, from what I've heard, Twitter can set it up for you on request. http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/auto_follow I'd like to see someone develop an auto-follow script that includes some sort of spam filter - i.e. don't auto-follow people based on certain key words in their profile, people who have a Following: Follower ratio > 5, people who have been blocked > 10 times, etc. Thanks Graham for the feedback. Regarding the auto-follow script, there appear to be some scripts floating around out there and, from what I’ve heard, Twitter can set it up for you on request.
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/auto_follow

I’d like to see someone develop an auto-follow script that includes some sort of spam filter - i.e. don’t auto-follow people based on certain key words in their profile, people who have a Following: Follower ratio > 5, people who have been blocked > 10 times, etc.

]]> Comment on Hey A-List Twitterers - do you know who you’re following? by Graham Smith http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/hey-a-list-twitterers-do-you-know-who-is-following-you/#comment-67 Graham Smith Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:41:15 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=147#comment-67 I actually did not know about this site, been subsequently reading it and I am liking what you are doing. Don't want to sound too 'we must make the world a perfect place' but you know what I mean. Will link to this site on the post as a reference. Graham I actually did not know about this site, been subsequently reading it and I am liking what you are doing. Don’t want to sound too ‘we must make the world a perfect place’ but you know what I mean.

Will link to this site on the post as a reference.

Graham

]]> Comment on Hey A-List Twitterers - do you know who you’re following? by Graham Smith http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/hey-a-list-twitterers-do-you-know-who-is-following-you/#comment-66 Graham Smith Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:37:51 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=147#comment-66 Wow. You move fast. :) Only posted that late last night. Was actually quite late for me, so was not sure what I was writing made perfect sense. Was more a spontaneous decision last night, so had no real 'hard facts' as such, just my personal opinion. Thank you for mentioning the post and actually adding to it by specifying the ways in which you can follow automatically. I spent about 10mins on one of these 'web cam sites' yesterday, not pleased that I did, but i was morbidly curious as to if these girls were actually doing it because they 'wanted to' or more specifically to see if they were 'forced into performing for whatever reason'. Very clear that most were not wanting to be there at all. Which makes me really very angry and horrendously upset. Young girls in cages performing on demand. Where are we going? Anyway, thanks again. Wow. You move fast. :)
Only posted that late last night. Was actually quite late for me, so was not sure what I was writing made perfect sense.

Was more a spontaneous decision last night, so had no real ‘hard facts’ as such, just my personal opinion.

Thank you for mentioning the post and actually adding to it by specifying the ways in which you can follow automatically.

I spent about 10mins on one of these ‘web cam sites’ yesterday, not pleased that I did, but i was morbidly curious as to if these girls were actually doing it because they ‘wanted to’ or more specifically to see if they were ‘forced into performing for whatever reason’. Very clear that most were not wanting to be there at all.

Which makes me really very angry and horrendously upset. Young girls in cages performing on demand. Where are we going?

Anyway, thanks again.

]]> Comment on @pandora_radio is doing Twitter the right way! by Lucia @ Pandora http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/pandora_radio-is-doing-twitter-the-right-way/#comment-64 Lucia @ Pandora Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:06:37 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=145#comment-64 Thanks for the shout-out! :) Lucia Thanks for the shout-out!

:) Lucia

]]> Comment on Colin Carmichael gets no Twitter Spam by admin http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/colin-carmichael-gets-no-twitter-spam/#comment-63 admin Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:54:16 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=144#comment-63 Colin, yes indeed we have. I'm just happy to see this topic getting discussed. There are many sides to this issue. Colin, yes indeed we have. I’m just happy to see this topic getting discussed. There are many sides to this issue.

]]> Comment on Colin Carmichael gets no Twitter Spam by Ike http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/colin-carmichael-gets-no-twitter-spam/#comment-62 Ike Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:51:02 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=144#comment-62 Colin's argument misses one key point: if we DID get notifications of new RSS subscribers, we'd be VERY likely to check them out to see who they were. From a marketing perspective it would be irresponsible not to. From a content protection perspective, it would be a great way to identify scraping of your content. Colin didn't think it through. Colin’s argument misses one key point: if we DID get notifications of new RSS subscribers, we’d be VERY likely to check them out to see who they were.

From a marketing perspective it would be irresponsible not to.

From a content protection perspective, it would be a great way to identify scraping of your content.

Colin didn’t think it through.

]]> Comment on Colin Carmichael gets no Twitter Spam by Colin Carmichael http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2008/04/colin-carmichael-gets-no-twitter-spam/#comment-61 Colin Carmichael Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:48:41 +0000 http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/?p=144#comment-61 Well, anonymous champion of so-called TwitterSpam, you & I have had this argument before. Thanks for sharing my point of view with your readers, whoever you are. :) Well, anonymous champion of so-called TwitterSpam, you & I have had this argument before. Thanks for sharing my point of view with your readers, whoever you are. :)

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