Loading Profile...
Recent activity
Subscribe to this feed
Joel Danielson replied on July 19, 2008 04:20 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
i've been trying to raise this same issue with a site called "soundcloud". side issue, but the idea i had for that was that perhaps users could be voted down to a point that triggers a vote to ban them for abusing the system.
another idea would be to have no notification to the user who has been followed, thereby dropping the incentive for the spammer to randomly add people.-
mapkid replied on July 15, 2008 23:36 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
Oh, we're calling them Spitters. I like it. I was calling them barnacles. I can call them spitters, though. either way :-) -
A comment on the discussion "Caught a spammer by the toe..." in Twitter:
Cool! 8-) – mdy, on June 13, 2008 17:46 -
smgct replied on June 13, 2008 17:35 to the discussion "Caught a spammer by the toe..." in Twitter:
mdy: Just did so--thanks! -
mdy replied on June 13, 2008 16:39 to the discussion "Caught a spammer by the toe..." in Twitter:
I suggest you create a support ticket at http://twitter.com/help with the type "spam request" using the information you posted above. -
smgct started following the discussion "Caught a spammer by the toe..." in Twitter.
-
smgct started following the discussion "Caught a spammer by the toe..." in Twitter.
-
smgct started a conversation in Twitter on June 13, 2008 15:59:
Caught a spammer by the toe...agoraindex just spammed me, it led me back to his blogpot weblog which features this as today's post:
Friday, June 13, 2008
How To Attract FREE Internet Traffic
Here's tip for you to attract free internet traffic to your blog or website. Get twitter account. Add 10,000+ "followers" .. add anyone / everyone .. find ur targets / prospects using your industry "bait" or keywords, etc .. exploit by linking your twitter account to your account on myspace or to your website for extreme exposure of your products/service, life or pleasure .. watch ur traffic explode.
>>> Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, Jaiku, MyBlogLog, Zimbio, Qassia, Cyber-Robotics, Feedburner, Technorati ..
>>> If u r in the entertainment industry, u can combine the above with music distribution companies (ShowcaseYourMusic, SongCastMusic) with the power of Myspace, Eventful, Blip, FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, and other Social Networks to unleash your music; .. google it; "music+distribution+service" .. or/and .. "music+distribution+services"...
Posted by AGORAINDEX on Friday, June 13, 2008 0 comments Links to this post -
A comment on the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
Yes: they're abusing Twitter as an automaton to create link farms promoting their own websites - and don't give a d*** that they're degrading Twitter's performance in the process. I hope Google has algorithms to spot and disfavour websites thus promoted. :-{ – Eridanus, on June 12, 2008 22:20 -
A comment on the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
The problem with that is that these folks start up with 1--so the first 999 people would have to deal with it. I really think that the e-mail (or message on the twitter site) notifying that so and so WANTS to follow you, and your yes or no reply would be easier. Although yes, you'd still have to check it out and decide each one. The other option is for the twitterfolk to somehow put a cap on how many somebody is following or at the least, an alert to them so that they can check it out. Something has to be done. – smgct, on June 11, 2008 18:56 -
deguspice replied on June 11, 2008 18:44 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
Or perhaps Twitter could add a user setting that allows you to request that anyone who follows you with 1,000+ (or 10,000+) gets automatically blocked.
It looks like these people are trying to use Twitter to increase their search engine rankings. -
smgct replied on June 08, 2008 13:47 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
Email approval would likely be the easiest way to go. I did get one--one that I approved. Why not on the spammers though? -
smgct started following the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter.
