Comments on: Did You Know You Are For Sale on Twitter?

By: ian in hamburg

ian in hamburg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:44:39 +0000

I wish there were a button on the twitter page you could click on to block spam followers in one easy step. I hate to laboriously click through so many times just to get rid of this crap. If Twitter doesn’t get a better handle on the spammers, it’s going to choke on its own success.

By: teratips

teratips — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:55:03 +0000

Great insights, Thanks

By: Nancy McCord

Nancy McCord — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:46:47 +0000

As search engines catch up with the popularity of the Twitter phenomenon we will see more schemes and spammers. In fact Bing just announced that they are indexing tweets in their engine in a select test of Twitter users. So get ready for Twitter interst to really spike based on that information.

Expect to see more SEO and more marketing on Twitter. I am expecting full blown monetization on Twitter with ads in Tweets and on sidebars as Twitter is just too hot to not have the folks at Twitter milk it for all it is worth. Remember when Google first came out? We all said this is so great how can they pay for this and in three years we had AdWords.

Personally to just have Twitter users just to fill numbers is really dishonest and disingenuous. For people who spam me, I just unfollow them. If you buy the list, you may have these followers for one tweet but for what? Just bragging rights of numbers or followers from Twitter accounts of other spammers?

By: Forum

Forum — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:59:39 +0000

I think twitter should also block this company.

By: Mihai Secasiu

Mihai Secasiu — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:03:35 +0000

This is “send your advertisement to millions over email for just $100″ for twitter.
A few months ago everyone thought twitter was kind of “opt-in” and you couldn’t get any spam unless you follow a spammer. Back then I said it would be just a matter of time till spammers get in the twitter game and send “recommendations” as @replies . That time has come.

I would block such an account when I get the first message from it and I would definitely not follow whomever they would “recommend” just like I stop following those that abuse the #followfriday thing.

I think twitter should also block this company.