Comments on: Could Twitter Ads Help Stop Twitter Spam? http://www.blogpi.net/could-twitter-ads-help-stop-twitter-spam Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:21:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: William Beutler http://www.blogpi.net/could-twitter-ads-help-stop-twitter-spam/comment-page-1#comment-136012 William Beutler Tue, 06 May 2008 21:03:39 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/could-twitter-ads-help-stop-twitter-spam#comment-136012 <p>I'm impressed by the cleverness, if not the ends to which it was put. All the more reason to find some legitimate outlet for commercial/promotional activity on Twitter.</p> I’m impressed by the cleverness, if not the ends to which it was put. All the more reason to find some legitimate outlet for commercial/promotional activity on Twitter.

]]> By: Melanie Phung http://www.blogpi.net/could-twitter-ads-help-stop-twitter-spam/comment-page-1#comment-136000 Melanie Phung Tue, 06 May 2008 15:09:09 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/could-twitter-ads-help-stop-twitter-spam#comment-136000 <p>Just got an interesting spam "follower", which tried to fool me into thinking it was a notification message (do I look like I was born yesterday?) inviting me to follow some get rich quick guy. The tactic appears to be to follow people with the fake account, which sends a notification via email, but get them to follow the "guru" account... that keeps the guru's following:follower ratio nice and legit looking.</p> <p>In fact, the link on the fake account goes to <em>automatically</em> add the guy's other account (the link is twitter.com/friendships/create/username) if you are foolish enough to click on it.</p> <p>We're reaching that point where people try to be all tricky. Next up: attempts to get people to download viruses. Sigh.</p> Just got an interesting spam “follower”, which tried to fool me into thinking it was a notification message (do I look like I was born yesterday?) inviting me to follow some get rich quick guy. The tactic appears to be to follow people with the fake account, which sends a notification via email, but get them to follow the “guru” account… that keeps the guru’s following:follower ratio nice and legit looking.

In fact, the link on the fake account goes to automatically add the guy’s other account (the link is twitter.com/friendships/create/username) if you are foolish enough to click on it.

We’re reaching that point where people try to be all tricky. Next up: attempts to get people to download viruses. Sigh.

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