exador23's dashboard

Sorry for being late to this party. I will still chime in, however.

I do not know why everyone is so up in arms over this "JM Coon" person. He is somebody who is using scripts to increase his Twitter following. Some people do care, some people do not care.

I for one, do not care, sort of. More power to anyone who wants to rise above being average and become extraordinary. People are making assumptions or speculating without the necessary information. We do not know for sure who this "JM Coon" is. Some people claim he is and old man, some people say he is 14. This is the Internet, and people lie all the time to cover up their motives. I really do not care who he is. He is not important to me.

The part I do care about, however, is his use of scripts to try increase his following on Twitter. If you post crap, people more than likely will not read it. As others have stated, it is the content you post which will gain you a following, unless you are famous of course. When his scripts start to interfere with the normal functioning of the service Twitter is offering by increasing the load of those services, that is what I have an issue with. It ruins the Twitter experience for everyone when he, and those like him pull such stunts.

So in a sense, I kind of care but I really do not care. As long as I get to talk to my friends on Twitter, and they get to talk to me, I am happy. When the service starts to go all bonkers though, because some idiot is so starved for attention in real life, that they have to come online to get it, then I do have a serious problem. Remember MySpace? Remember the trouble some people went through to get friends. They purchased those programs that sit there and send out invites, and then MySpace had to step in and put limits on the amount of people users could invite in a day.

I think ultimately, if users such as "JM Coon" continue to abuse the service, then he should be banned for good. Twitter also needs to incorporate features into their service that can detect this type of abuse to prevent it in the future. They thus far, have done a great job with the service, although I am not really too happy that it has taken them this long to get it back to being stable.

So there - that's my two cents on this "JM Coon" issue. :) Have a great morning, noon, afternoon, or night.

Now it appears the New Follower notifications for spammers are coming through again. So does this mean that the experiment of suppressing these emails from known spammers is over?

Oh man, we (or maybe all users? ;-)) seem to have the same ideas. *lol* You can see it in my ideas posted. – Philipp Grunwald, on July 13, 2008 02:22

Looks like notices are coming more frequently. I've gotten a few notices of new followers recently, all spammers. They always come right after I post an update. At least I can then block them.

Interestingly, Twitter is still doing nothing to block obvious abuse. The last follower I got was on someone who first posted less than an hour ago and was already following 4,111 people!

I don't quite get how pointing out a competitor is underhanded. GetSatisfaction is about helping the users, and if the vendor won't help, alternatives are a useful thing to point out.

Identi.ca could be the best thing to happen to Twitter: it (a) validates them and their pioneering of microblogging and (b) provides pressure for them to improve.

Perhaps if they're really buying Summize, they'll finally get behind the concept of hashtags. They are easy to use and don't require creating anything new. Summize + hashtags takes care of the scenario you describe here. (However, I think that's very separate from the concept of groups. Twitter would be smart to hop on that train; especially with FriendFeed and their "rooms.") – quepol, on July 09, 2008 22:42

well, very sorry indeed then. I'd gladly delete it if I could. Have a nice day. (and for the record - I'm just a normal joe user) – exador23, on July 08, 2008 22:36

This reply has little to do with the question, it's just an underhanded advertisement for identi.ca. I've suddenly lost a lot of respect for that site, and it's given me more reason to be patient with Twitter. – Spam, on July 08, 2008 22:13

not meant to be spam meg. sorry if I offended. If anything, competition may help the situation for all the u-blog users, including twitter. I've tried being as helpful as I could on various twitter issues here (feel free to check my dashboard). The silence from the TWORG has tried my patience much more than the problems with their service. Now I'm happy. I'm still rooting for their success. & hoping users will finally getsatisfaction - or at the very least get an answer to the very serious questions posed here. – exador23, on July 08, 2008 21:57

Nothing says "I've got a solution" like a bit of competitor spam. Tres uncool. – Meg, on July 08, 2008 21:41

I feel for you guys. So glad that I'm almost exclusively here: http://identi.ca/exador23 or add /all (remember "with others"?) or /replies

If I have a problem I can @evan who actually uses identica to answer it's version of "What are you doing?" http://identi.ca/evan really explore the difference, it's ok, you can go hundreds of pages back in time.

go ahead check it out. But, please, bring an attitude of patience & tolerance with you. It's a do-ocracy. If you can't fix the issue yourself, realize none of the open source code community is being paid to satisfy you, and your feature request for the laconi.ca source might not be a priority at the moment. But if it's important to enough people & coders, it will eventually come on line.

too bad 12 employees are "not listening and not participating" This is a still a problem for our non-profit. nearly 10 years of important transactions and contacts lost. We're looking into other service providers.

Now, if only I had a contact in the Chinese government. maybe we could get access to our data through them ;-)

too bad 12 employees are "not listening and not participating" This is a still a problem for our non-profit. nearly 10 years of important transactions and contacts lost. We're looking into other service providers.

Now, if only I had a contact in the Chinese government. maybe we could get access to our data through them ;-)

it is the secont time in 5 days i get this notification "yahoo account has been suspended 48 hours". I need the account daily and this is really a problem. I need to be solved asap!

Excellent suggestions, KC! – @ggroovin, on July 08, 2008 14:48

Twitter should/could do the following *right now* to make things easier:

- Include a "block" link in the email.
- Include the # of people this "person" follows, along with the number of people who follow them. This helps us determine if they are legit or not without having to click on their profile.

It's just too time-consuming right now, period. Going through & blocking spam accounts (both those that are just repetitively linking to their site as well as the retweeters from the public time line) currently takes several clicks as well as forcing me to log into more than 1 account that I manage.

Trying to report all of them via the help form or an e-mail to support or help with a particular subject line is even more time-consuming. This is completely KILLING the joy of getting new followers. Please help!