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Re: Read WriteWeb: “New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos”

stoptwitterspam — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:10:56 -0000

It's very easy to delete your Twitter account. Go to http://twitter.com/account/settings and click the option to 'Delete my account' at the bottom of the page.

Re: Twitter 101 Advice for Companies: “Don’t spam people”

stoptwitterspam — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:41:27 -0000

Thanks for subscribing Joe. I'm not sure if it will fix the older posts but the author/creator field should be more personalized going forward.

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

stoptwitterspam — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:17:35 -0000

I've actually had pretty good luck with reporting spammers to @spam. Sometimes it takes a day or two. Seems odd that such a low percentage of the ones you reported haven't been suspended.

Re: New Poll: Should Twitter moderate Trending Tropics to prevent it from being spammed?

stoptwitterspam — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:08:47 -0000

Good ideas. Have you checked out the CleanTweets Firefox extension? It does some of the things that you described. http://www.blvdstatus.com/clean-tweets.html

Re: Fake Tina Fey Spreading Misinformation About 30 Rock on Twitter

stoptwitterspam — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:31:52 -0000

Even the smart people are getting fooled. Here's a tweet to @Tina_Fey from one of Twitter's investors (a very smart dude): http://twitter.com/bijan/statuses/2088118933

Re: Do You Want Companies to Directly Market To You on Twitter?

stoptwitterspam — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:23:28 -0000

The difficult thing about this is the marketing messages come from people that you aren't following.

Re: Twitter - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

stoptwitterspam — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:24:19 -0000

Vanessa, thanks for stopping by and sharing your perspective on trending topic spam. Hopefully Twitter will get a handle on this soon because the spam is really threatening a very useful feature.

Re: http://www.stoptwitterspam.com/blog/2009/06/493/

stoptwitterspam — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:12:43 -0000

Great feature. I just enabled it on my Topify settings.

Re: Spammers Might Ruin Twitter Trending Topics

stoptwitterspam — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:00:03 -0000

I'll get the tar, you supply the feathers?

Re: Social Mediasphere: The Gaming Of Twitter Exposed

stoptwitterspam — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:54:11 -0000

Valid points Ray. I think some of this has to do with this being originally recorded as a live show and probably not much editing done before the show was posted as an archive.

Re: Say Goodbye To Your Spammy Followers

stoptwitterspam — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:57:05 -0000

I have a feeling that Twitter is going to be offering some kind of a commercial plan in the near future that will allow businesses / powers users to exceed the 2000 following limit - maybe bundled together with other features such as Track, analytics, etc.

Re: The Alltop Spam Issue

stoptwitterspam — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:44:40 -0000

Martin, hopefully this trend won't be gathering much momentum. I think people quickly realize that they lose followers when they agree to these types of arrangements. I was looking at the WikiHow page and one of the examples they gave was a link to this page called How To Touch a Girl - http://www.wikihow.com/Touch-a-Girl Can you imagine that link showing up as one of your tweets???

Re: The Story Of The Tit-for-Tat Spammer

stoptwitterspam — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:41:46 -0000

I agree - DISQUS rocks.

Re: The Story Of The Tit-for-Tat Spammer

stoptwitterspam — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:40:46 -0000

Mike J - thanks for your comments. First off, I apologize for the slightly sensationalist headline. It's clear from how you have handled this situation that you are not a spammer. As I mentioned in the post, your experiment generated some very healthy discussion about this.

Re: 5 fun steps to spam your Twitter friends

stoptwitterspam — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:38:58 -0000

Dave - just curious - on step 2 are they emailing you or DM'ing you? If it's email, how are they getting your email address?

Re: bdo radio #107

stoptwitterspam — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:17:15 -0000

The blast of emails Sunday night was actually related to an email outage that happened over the weekend. So all of the DM and New Follower emails were backed up and got released when the issue was cleared up Sunday evening. That doesn't mean there isn't a spam problem - there is! - but the email outage explains why everyone got so many of emails in a short period of time. Here's the update from @twitter_status about the email outage:
http://twitter.com/twitter_status/statuses/7886...

Re: And the Twitter spam whine begins

stoptwitterspam — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:01:07 -0000

Here's the corrected link:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/how_w...

Re: And the Twitter spam whine begins

stoptwitterspam — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:49:15 -0000

In the last week or so Twitter has really stepped up their anti-spam initiatives. A few days ago they added a 'report spam' option on this page: http://twitter.com/help

And they are asking for feedback from the Twitter community about how spam should be reported. If you care about this, now is your chance to influence how this will work.
http://getsatisfaction.com/tw itter/topics/how_would _you_prefer_to_report_ twitter_spam

Like Steven said, it's going to take a community effort to take care of this issue before the spammers make Twitter totally unusable.