Kevin Makice's dashboard

Chris, that explains his recent Twitterholic stats:

Jun 25: number of followers only went up by 2 (unlike the preceding weeks where they would increase by the hundreds every day)

Jun 26: number of followers actually decreased for the first time

I do believe that falls under harassment and is a violation of twitters TOS, which should give them enough reason to terminate his account. As long as you did not delete the email, they should send you instructions for forwarding it to them so they can verify

http://twitter.com/tos

Oh, and on another note, I knew this was coming, I received an email from Jarret. Here's the raw contents:

"On 26-Jun-08, at [Jun 26] 2:58:32 am, jarret coon wrote:

Im Jmcoon can i just say mind you own Biz ... Ok Talk for your self about growing up ... Love you Bitch :)"

Hey!

I've received a response from Twitter support (they've certainly gotten quicker to respond than in the past). They are waiting for more people to block him or report him before they remove his account. They also said they are constantly going to monitor his activity. And, this is the best part, he has been removed from the public timeline and they have turned off email notifications. This means that when he follows someone, they WILL NOT receive an email about it.

WIN. :)

(And on a side note, he is pretending to be someone by the name of Tom, over here http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... )

You, too, have a good point. I liked this one reply though: "@MelinaM: thinking ppl like @Jmcoon are lame for mass follow ppl only to up their own "Followers" count....well buddy, your count just dropped by one!" LOL.

Good point... but still, if we just let him be, he'll continue to do this, grab more followers, and have more people respond to him on Twitter. The number of people responding to even the most boring of his tweets is already outstanding. http://summize.com/search?q=%40jmcoon :( – Chris Thomson, on June 24, 2008 20:49

Stop it. Stop it! Don't you see, the young idiot will see this stuff as "Cool - ppl r t4lkin about me." Perhaps if we all ignore him, he'll go away? – daemonchild, on June 24, 2008 20:25

Yeah, jmcoon sure it tricking lots of people. I can't stand people like him, for a number of reasons. a) Spam going to hundreds of thousands of inboxes through his continuous follow requests. b) His script is probably effecting Twitter's servers in some way, ruining it for all of us c) He isn't a nice person. Anyone who writes something bad about him will get "F**K YOU!" or called a "bit*h", or "go die in a hole". He's really got no life, and no respect for others. – Chris Thomson, on June 24, 2008 18:11

Funny. I entered GS to see if there was anything new I could help with and found this. I have commented today and yesterday on how @jmcoon is playing the system and how he's got me baffled right now.

You see, he's added me five times in two weeks, three of them on the same day. But I'm STILL in his "following" list.

I am a very heavy twitterer, and I tweet exclusively in spanish.

The only @reply I've sent to him went ignored, too.

I believe he's now trying to find a workaround to, yet again, play the system to gain followers.

He's following 50 people yet he's managed to gain 7 thousand. I've seen other people followed by him and it's clear he's following and unfollowing to get those numbers to grow.

Problem is, the ratio now is closer to that of a "twitter Guru" when someone looks at it, and simpler people (which seem to be legion in twitter) won't realize they're being played into the same game.

He's not an interesting twitterer, his writing is embarrasingly full of typos and anodine to a degree almost unbelievable. He's obviously in twitter just to try and outsmart the rest of the community and the twitter devs.

One wouldn't think a twitterholic rank is that important.

I also received a msg from PuppyL0ve saying she couldn't sleep, was looking for new friends and could I follow her. I replied NO..look how many you're following! I'm sure 47,000some she's following someone would of been online for her to talk to! lol She just wants more followers. What do people get out of this? They have no friends in 'real life' this makes them feel good? It's like high school crap! – suncatcher, on June 24, 2008 15:24

I'm logging into all of my accounts right now (I have many — for testing reasons, and for different purposes) and blocking him in them all. Something has to be done about @jmcoon. :( – Chris Thomson, on June 24, 2008 01:34

I also received a message from @PuppyL0ve. Seriously, these people should go back to MySpace. – Chris Thomson, on June 24, 2008 01:34

Thanks everyone for this. jmcoon followed me today so I followed him back, but after calling a girl on here a "bitc*", I already removed him.

I also had a personal message from a locked Twitter called PuppyL0ve this past weekend. Why must everything be tarnished by annoying people?

There's been no reply from anyone from Twitter on this topic, so I don't see any point in following it any longer. I'll just keep blocking bots until Twitter can figure it out themselves.

haha that poor guy is gonna get a lot of hate mail thanks to you :-P – inko9nito, on June 23, 2008 08:48

I think the easiest way to save yourself from further time-wasting is to use the block feature, since that prevents specific users from following you again. You won't ever have to receive an email notice from that account.

Twitter also looks at the number of times that an account has been blocked when they're reviewing spam complaints, so there's a cumulative effect when enough people block an account.

in case anyone wants to direct their opinions to jmcoon himself, i'm pretty sure they can reach him here - [email address removed for privacy reasons]

perhaps you could get some more answers this way?

As I've said many times now, the myspace generation is ruining just about anything good the internet had going for it. They don't seem to understand that there are more important things in life than how many people you're "friends" with or how popular people think you are. Sites like twitter aren't for friendwhoring, they are for passing along information. That being said, there aren't many things in this world that piss me off more than script kiddies and the multiple emails about follows and re-follows are quite annoying.

To LeaderABW since you don't care that there was a bot or malicious script involved and say Twitter shouldn't pay attention to that sort of misuse of their property and service. Do you have a personal website so that I may waste you're resources and time?

...which might be better spent learning to spell and write a sentence. I think jmcoon would be a lot more interesting if he could just get through ONE sentence with no errors. Guess he doesn't realize people stop reading him just because he can't write. Come on jm, pull it together. If you can buy over $10,000 in "stokes" I bet you could get the hang of spelling in no time!! – AndreaM, on June 23, 2008 06:29