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I can't believe they haven't done anything about him yet. I'd love to hear what an employee thinks of this situation.

Why haven't they done something about this kid yet? I blocked him today. He's STILL doing it.

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.

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?