http://stoptwitterspam.disqus.com/enWed, 22 Jul 2009 05:56:11 -0000http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/07/new-poll-should-twitter-moderate-trending-tropics-to-prevent-it-from-being-spammed/#comment-13102039<p>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.</p>Family consultantWed, 22 Jul 2009 05:56:11 -0000http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/07/new-poll-should-twitter-moderate-trending-tropics-to-prevent-it-from-being-spammed/#comment-12508215<p>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.</p>Stop Twitter SpamSat, 11 Jul 2009 12:17:35 -0000http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/07/new-poll-should-twitter-moderate-trending-tropics-to-prevent-it-from-being-spammed/#comment-12508039<p>Good ideas. Have you checked out the CleanTweets Firefox extension? It does some of the things that you described. <a href="http://www.blvdstatus.com/clean-tweets.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.blvdstatus.com/clean-tweets.html">http://www.blvdstatus.com/c...</a></p>Stop Twitter SpamSat, 11 Jul 2009 12:08:47 -0000http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/07/new-poll-should-twitter-moderate-trending-tropics-to-prevent-it-from-being-spammed/#comment-12502824<p>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.</p>LilyEmBlueSat, 11 Jul 2009 10:58:56 -0000http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/07/new-poll-should-twitter-moderate-trending-tropics-to-prevent-it-from-being-spammed/#comment-12502544<p>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.</p>LilyEmBlueSat, 11 Jul 2009 10:50:57 -0000http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/07/new-poll-should-twitter-moderate-trending-tropics-to-prevent-it-from-being-spammed/#comment-12233999<p>Gorilla [man parts] Must be Stopped.</p>kim sherrellMon, 06 Jul 2009 19:58:02 -0000