Twitter Spam
I’m not a huge twitter user. I like the idea, but none of inner circle friends are using it so I don’t get much milage out of it yet.
Yesterday, I had my first twitter spam follow. My guess is the person behind this has a bot pouring through twitter looking for people in Vancouver.
At my last gig, I dealt with email deliverability. I know quite a bit about email spam. Email spam is like punching someone in the dark and running away. I don’t know who sent me the spam. I delete it and it’s gone. It’s not personal at all. At least, not any more.
With twitter spam, it just sits there mocking me until I block the follower. It’s watching what I do. It knows what I say and who I converse with. I suppose that’s an advantage twitter has — it’s easy at this point to identify the culprits. Also, I can block the follower.
My guess is that when twitter reaches some critical mass, people are going to write bots to sign up for accounts to continually spam people. You’ll get things like HomeLoanx3492ad following you all the time just to grab your attention. Once it is blocked, a new account will be created and the whole process will start again. It’s all happened before..
[...] Yesterday, I had my first twitter spam follow. My guess is the person behind this has a bot pouring through twitter looking for people in Vancouver… With twitter spam, it just sits there mocking me until I block the follower…My guess is that when twitter reaches some critical mass, people are going to write bots to sign up for accounts to continually spam people. You’ll get things like HomeLoanx3492ad following you all the time just to grab your attention. Once it is blocked, a new account will be created and the whole process will start again. [...]
March 31st, 2008 at 5:49 pm