Can someone at Twitter please block the6figureteam(dot)com bot from spamming? I think I've blocked well over 200 of their spam accounts just last week alone, and at least 4 just this morning.
Big thanks to everyone here at GS/T on posting those spam accounts. The block list is getting huge (or at least it would be if I could see it).
http://twitter.com/hasbrogijoe is rather obviously a pile of spam (look at it, you'll see). how can i report this? if this counts as reporting it, then i request deletion. thanks!
Like many other people, I'm seeing an increase in new followers who are following hundreds or thousands of people in a short amount of time in an attempt to get people to follow them back. When I navigate to the new follower's page, it's pretty clear that the person is a "Spitter" (Spam + Twitter = Spitter) by just looking at their Followers / Following numbers - e.g. Following 5,082 but only 43 Followers. I am going through this exercise about five times a day and it's really starting to take the joy out of Twitter.
Please consider changing the New Follower e-mail notification so that the the Followers / Following metrics are included in the e-mail. Even better, can you add the Follow and Block buttons into the e-mail? This doesn't solve the spam problem but it would go a long ways towards minimizing the impact. Thanks!
a FolloWhore is a spammer/marketeer that follows tens of thousands of people, for the primary purpose of directing traffic to certain websites... FolloWhores typically have very low update counts, of ZERO value to their few(i.e. 100-ish) followers. They present a tremendous strain on Twitter's already frail API's and infrastructure.
Suggestion(s):
1.) Put Follower/following ratio limits into effect. i.e. they can't follow more than 5x or 10x their followers
2.) Place restrictions on how fast people can follow and/or how many people they can add per day/hour, etc... (i watched someone follow 1000 ppl in 20 minutes)
3.) Add a "report spam/abuse" button next to the Block button., and regulate it like CraigsList does... TwitterBlackList is a good start, but doesn't close the loop.
Thanks for listening., I'm looking forward to seeing a solution.
AceyTech
How would you, as a member of the Twitter community, like to flag potential spammers? Right now you can block a spammer or report them via email. We're working on spam handling presently, and I'd like to know what the simple, unobtrusive solution looks like from your point of view. A "report spam" button on profiles, áa Gmail?
I have a protected account. Someone sent me a follower request. I blocked this user and also denied their request. This was yesterday.
Today, I sit down and view Twitter, and somehow the blocked user has sent me a new, second follower request. I have confirmed they are currently blocked because the link at the bottom of their page says "unblock." Why can a previously blocked user send me a new follower request?
Last week, Mashable wrote an excellent post called 'Is Twitter About to Have a Big Spam' problem. One of the suggestions that was proposed is requiring captcha when following new people on Twitter. Yes, this would probably result in complaints from people who like the one-click follow option that is available today. But there are just too many people abusing the one-click Follow feature today through the use of bots and screen-scraping tools to "mass follow" hundreds of people in a short amount of time in an attempt to build their audience on Twitter.
There are a few ways to make the captcha less intrusive to users who are not abusing the Follow feature.
1. Only require captcha after someone has followed a large number of people (e.g. 200) in a short period of time
2. Only require captcha sporadically - e.g. after adding the 25th friend, after the 50th friend, etc.
Please consider adding this feature soon because we don't want Twitter to turn in to MySpace and there are clear signs that it's going in that direction.
Omg who is this kid he is so annoying. He keeps talking to me. He thinks we are friends. So cute.... He should get off of the internets becuse he cant spell. And has not grammmer. Who has had this problem with this pesky kid .... ???
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