Twitter is Spammer’s Delight
I love Twitter. It’s a fast and easy way to communicate with a lot of people. I’ve enjoyed watching Twitter develop and I enjoy watching the dynamics of life repeat themselves online.
First, Twitter is a Spammer’s Delight. About 90% of the people who use Twitter have a business and are using twitter as a way to communicate with the 25 – 50 year old crowd. Some are big business owners and others are small etsy shops. Regardless of size, they create spam in their tweets because they need to sell their product or service.
There are three types of Spammers on Twitter.
The first type of spammer is the most obvious where someone links to their business blog or shop. I really don’t mind the advertising though if they are people who have talked about life topics, rather than just sending out links to their website. I *do* mind if they are just sending links to ebooks that they didn’t write, solar panel kits that don’t work or “make money online schemes.”
The second type of spam is the sneaky spam. Today, someone asked if they could interview me. I’m asked this at least twice a week on a Twitter. Usually, I ignore it, but today I wanted to know why someone not in my field would want to interview me. So I sent her a direct message and she wrote some nonsense back about wanting to find out more about people. That kind of spam is a bit more annoying and makes you want to go through your friends list and throw that type of user off of it.
The last type of spam on Twitter is the most annoying. It’s when someone makes many accounts and uses pictures of scantily clad ladies as the avatar. That spam is and will always be the most annoying because people are tired of the old porn spam. Come up with a new plan, spammers.
Anyway, if you are interested in spamming me, you can find me here on Twitter.
Hugs,
marlene
Topics: Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
July 28th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I still haven’t really grabbed hold of twitter – I have an account, but well I don’t use it much – you’ve inspired me to give it another try!
July 29th, 2009 at 1:03 am
I HATE when I get a follower on Twitter who is follower like 40,000 people and has only 3 updates. Like I’m dumb enough to follow back.
July 30th, 2009 at 12:26 am
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August 21st, 2009 at 4:42 am
Following you on twitter and I agree totally with your comments. You have a refreshing online presence,continued success to you. – Publisher, BEBE 1021Online ( no spam ) ha!
December 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Bookmarked, thanks :)