There’s been so much talk about Twitter spam recently that it’s hard to feel the spammers are trying to take control.
Here’s a classic example of sneaky spam – the kind of spam that is frustrating because it doesn’t come across as spam.
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At first glance, it looks legit because who wouldn’t be interested in an evaluation of social media monitoring tools. (Note: In hindsight, the numbers within the username were a dead giveaway for a spammer.)
If you click on the link, it opens this page, an ad for Social Blaster, which is a for-sale tool to manage multiple accounts on a variety of social media networks and sell more stuff.
(No link for you, Social Blaster!)
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Spammers like this one are going to ruin the Twitter party is we’re not careful. Maybe it’s time for Twitter is really go after the spammers.
More: If you’re interested in how to reduce Twitter spam, check out this post I did on Twitterrati, which features a variety of services.
Agreed, "twammers" seem to be getting worse and more sophisticated, it seems like time Twitter made a real effort to get on top of things.
I actually take great pleasure in reporting every spammer who messages me to @spam (via DM) as well as blocking them.
I don't normally get a lot, maybe 2 or 3 a week but I wrote a short script to automate it for me. A couple of key strokes and I can report and block the spammer
You can download the script from this post: http://www.aaronbassett.com/2009/report-twitter-s…