I registered an account on Twitter.com many months ago as I thought it would be a nice tool to communicate with other people which shared the same opinion and preferences like me. Started out good but its going worst and worst every day. I believe Twitter might be called the Spammers Paradise since its easy as 1-2-3 to register and start following people who you do not know or you don’t have a clue about

Different so called affiliate marketers (blackhatters) are exploiting Twitter to get more clicks and sales on their offers. There have also been created different Twitter spam tools such as twitter friend adder which basically sends out tens or even hundreds requests to follow people based on particular interests.

Twitter has limited the number of people you can follow in a day to 500. Again its a big number but at least its a good sign that the Twitter staff is taking care of this mass spamming situation.

I signed in today on my Twitter account and on my public timeline, out of 10 tweets i saw, 8 of them contained spammy links or titles such as “How to make money online” , “Make a living from XXXX” and different other senseless comments. A webmaster or a marketer will never click on something shady like that but many innocent people who use twitter might fell and click on those links

What should Twitter do to prevent spamming ?

I was thinking of some moves which will make the Twitter community a much nicer place to live and communicate with friends or with other people.

• Make clicks unclickable
• Email confirmation needed upon registration
• IP recognition upon registration
• No more than 3 consecutive tweets sent
• Ability to report someone (if someone receives more than 50 reportings he should be banned)

Twitter is a nice concept but seems its not going at the right route. Some solid changes must be done in order to keep all of the experienced and veteran people over there happy

I was reading an old post (probably 2006) at Yaro’s blog, Entrepreneurs-Journey and was looking at the comments. I clicked on 2-3 on the commentators sites and what I found were just some parked pages. I felt a bit sorry for those guys who started something before 3 years and couldn’t keep it up. Even if they didn’t know what to write, at least it would have been much more profitable to keep the site active rather than just park it or let the domain name expire

The problem with most of the bloggers (especially the ones teaching others or writing tutorials) is that they get bored really quickly from their blogs. Even though you might not have anything good to write or share with your readers, at least pay renew your domain name and your hosting for a couple more years.

From some personal research I have done, most of the blogs which were opened in the last 2-3 years receive more traffic from the search engines and hence they have more subscribers.

What most of you don’t understand is that, only a small percentage of the world population is using the internet wisely and even a smaller percentage knows webmaster related stuff. If your blog would be up and living, even if you wouldn’t update it anymore you would still get organic traffic from your previous posts.

Understand that the new generation (which is now 7-10 year old) doesn’t know anything about affiliate marketing or other specific webmaster topics. They would be using different ways to find the need information (search engines, social bookmarks, etc ..) to become webmasters or even affiliate marketers. So they will need guides and tutorials which you have written before but just because you neglected to pay $10 for another year you lost all your writings and all your tutorials.

Conclusion

Blogging is like growing a plant, more you take care, more it will grow and produce some wonderful flowers. If you start a blog, make sure you do it correctly and write about what you know better but never let your dream die, if you aren’t making money just because someone didnt click on your affiliate banner, don’t worry, in the coming years someone will click but until then … you better pay your hosting & domain name

Alright fellow readers of my blog. I know you might be a little bit shocked from the title since it doesn’t have any relation with the niche I am actually writing (affiliate marketing , webmaster, blogging tips) but this is an interesting read and I am sure you gonna enjoy it.

The story began 6 months from now.I was getting some strange phone calls on my private mobile number but I couldn’t see the number as it was always masked (private call). Firstly I thought it must have been a joke from my friends but it was really weird because all the time i was hearing the same voice and the same words

“Hello”… “do you hear me?” … “Can I speak to Mike please?”… “Mike Hutchinson”

The last few calls I received, the number wasn’t masked so I found his number: 004951234567

Had some spare time and I googled the above number and I was blown away from the results I saw.

I was not alone, affected from the same mysterious call were and 40-50 other people from all the corners of the world.

I would highly recommend you to read THIS PAGE as it is filled with mysterious information, people complaining about 10-20 phone calls in each day and all of them from the same bot / maniac “The Mike VIRUS”

I didn’t get any phone calls for about 1 month until one day before… It was around 11:47 PM and my dad’s mobile rang .. He was sleeping so I quickly answered . . . the same message … again “The Mike Virus” but now from a different brand new number (as I googled it and I didnt get any revelant results)

The new number was: +518100127 and what it really amazed me even more was the fact that the previous number is a PRIME Number … so is this just by chance or something is going on?

Cheers

Olgi Zenullari