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Re: Read WriteWeb: “New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos”

Stop Twitter Spam — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:10:56 -0000

It's very easy to delete your Twitter account. Go to http://twitter.com/account/... and click the option to 'Delete my account' at the bottom of the page.

Re: #Hashtag Contests: Clever Marketing or Twitter Spam?

barney1985 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:54:51 -0000

Thanks for your opinion it highlights what could be a fatal mistake for a company looking to build longevity in the twitter community, thanks!

Re: Read WriteWeb: “New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos”

Susette — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:21:33 -0000

I am anti-Twitter. Why? Twitter itself is spamming me. Several times a week I get emails from people I've never heard of saying they are following me on Twitter. I have never signed up for Twitter and do not ever intend to. Of course, to report this spam I have to sign onto Twitter. So what do I do? How do I stop it?

Re: Twitter 101 Advice for Companies: “Don’t spam people”

grandpashaggy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:46:19 -0000

What is being called spam here is not spam, spam is email, which Twitter people can do right from the Twitter system. I am not a Twitter member and I am receiving emails from Twitter users wanting me to join. I do not know how these Twitter people get my email, but I can be sure why they want me to join. They want to sell me something. Twitter has no way to report spam or UCE. If you report one of these emails to SpamCop it reports that Twitter will not accept the reports (go figure, they want you to join as well).

There should be someone that comes up with the new defacto term for this Twitter spam as is described here... maybe UTT for unwated Twitter Tweep?

Re: Twitter - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Internet Marketing Austin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:39:10 -0000

Twitter had been an effective online marketing tool for some business owners, they had used twitter to market their service or product

Re: Twitter Doing Damage Control On False Follow Limit Rumor

Alrady — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:02:56 -0000

glad you clarified this!

Re: Twitter 101 Advice for Companies: “Don’t spam people”

twitterfools — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:55:20 -0000

Spam is an issue on Twitter and I for one am glad the Twitter handbook addressed it. Of course, I'll be much happier if/when Twitter adds a "report this" link after tweets. Then, perhaps, overtime the offending twit spammers can get warned or removed.

Re: Twitter 101 Advice for Companies: “Don’t spam people”

Stop Twitter Spam — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:41:27 -0000

Thanks for subscribing Joe. I'm not sure if it will fix the older posts but the author/creator field should be more personalized going forward.

Re: Twitter 101 Advice for Companies: “Don’t spam people”

Joe — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:46:51 -0000

In your RSS feed, you should change the author/creator field from "admin" to your name or "Stop Twitter Spam". I've subscribed to your RSS feed, but your articles show up in my feed list as being by "admin" instead of something more appropriate.

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

Family consultant — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:56:11 -0000

I don't agree, Trending topics are a mirror of the activity on twitter and involving other people by information or association. The activity/topic which is trending is a mirror of what is happening across the Twitter universe and which might not be work/professional but it is still being discussed and it provides an end user a power of choice to be a part of it, be aware of it or simple ignore it. A trending topic doesn't sends us an uncessary email alert... it might spam our timeline but then its us who choose what constitutes our timeline.

Re: The Alltop Spam Issue

muffin9129 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:41:09 -0000

Yeah, this is just becoming more and more of a problem, now big sellers are using twitter to market. I cannot believe it dates way back then though.

Re: Don’t Ride the TwitterTrain

debbiefagan — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:48:54 -0000

Twittertrain sucks to say the least! I unfortunately followed and now they keep sending out auto tweets for me promoting themselves. It sucks because I don't want to promote them and I don't know how to get it to stop! Can you help??

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

Stop Twitter Spam — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:17:35 -0000

I've actually had pretty good luck with reporting spammers to @spam. Sometimes it takes a day or two. Seems odd that such a low percentage of the ones you reported haven't been suspended.

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

Stop Twitter Spam — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:08:47 -0000

Good ideas. Have you checked out the CleanTweets Firefox extension? It does some of the things that you described. http://www.blvdstatus.com/c...

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

LilyEmBlue — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:58:56 -0000

By the way, unrelated... is there ANY point in reporting anything to @spam? I was going through my old DMs and found that out of approximately 50 reported spammers, only four have been suspended. FOUR! Out of 50! I'm talking about obvious spammers (I'm not abusing the reporting system). Things like "1000000000 followers!" and the porno spammers are not being removed. Some of these accounts are now months old, and are actively tweeting their spam. I can't be the only one who reported them. What is the point of wasting our time reporting spam if @spam does nothing about it? I'm about ready to quit doing that and just block without reporting.

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

LilyEmBlue — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:50:57 -0000

It's obvious that the trending topics are under attack from spammers. I think instead of moderating, Twitter could filter out the worst of the garbage. For example, tweets containing hashtags won't be counted toward trends if the account is less than a week old, or if more than three hashtags are used in a single tweet. Or something like that. This method seems good to me because it doesn't introduce a moderation queque and it's not subjective.

Re: Bye-Bye Fail Whale, Hello Suspended Owl

starspangled — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:49:04 -0000

Sorry, 'Foul Owl'.

Re: Bye-Bye Fail Whale, Hello Suspended Owl

starspangled — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:48:27 -0000

My newest follower has also been suspended. And btw, the Owl is called 'Fould Owl'.
Aww!

Re: Over 70% Say No To Keyword-based Direct Marketing on Twitter

ravm — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:41:25 -0000

I'm sure companies are already using Twitter and creating direct mailing lists to market their products. Smart companies will probably try to disguise these as real people making suggestions about a product. I mean really, how could you tell?

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

kim sherrell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:58:02 -0000

Gorilla [man parts] Must be Stopped.

Re: #Hashtag Contests: Clever Marketing or Twitter Spam?

Bijay Rungta aka @rungss — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:19:22 -0000

Can't read the whole stuff but Since last couple of Days My Tweets are being Retweeted by hashAnyTopic, be it Linux, Ubuntu, Kubuntu or just about anything

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@rungss on Twitter

Re: #Hashtag Contests: Clever Marketing or Twitter Spam?

Mark Mayhew — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:22:46 -0000

reading "#hashtag contests: clever marketing or Twitter spam" (u know how I feel about #moonfruit)

Re: Do You Want Companies to Directly Market To You on Twitter?

Back Massager — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:28:39 -0000

I don't think it's a great idea at all.

Re: Fake Tina Fey Spreading Misinformation About 30 Rock on Twitter

DD — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:44:38 -0000

@rainnwilson has been saying for quite some time that @tinafey was a hack.

Re: Techniques for Filtering Out Twitter Trending Topics Spam

Roseli A. Bakar — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:13:02 -0000

This is GREAT info. Thanks for sharing.