Twitter, The Spammers Paradise

June 30, 2009 in General by Olgi Zenullari

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

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7 Comments

July 4, 2009 at 2:44 pm | Internet Marketing Tips

Yeah! I think Twitter should monitor and put guards against these massive spamming activities. I, too, have a Twitter account and I’ve continuously received nonsense Tweets from people I don’t know.
July 13, 2009 at 7:57 am | Jesse Meijers

I actually never opened a Twitter account because I didn’t see the added value of the system. As with many such things, there are some success stories of people using it to their advantage (mainly top-bloggers). But mostly Twitter seems to be used, like blogs and email, for sketchy marketing stuff.

Twitter could be interesting once you have a certain amount of followers and you produce top-quality content. Much like blogging actually.

Maybe Twitter should learn lessons from email and blogging software… it seems to be the same problem in a different package.
July 18, 2009 at 2:17 am | Kuldeep Bhardwaj

yes even i think the same. Its high time now that twitter shud take a action.
July 22, 2009 at 7:11 pm | Moni Go

I totally agree with you.But people are enjoying as well as twitter promoter
September 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm | Chris Peterson

I agree, certain measures of control would make things less of a torture. But there was a time, email spams was the trend. Today, it’s twitter. I believe, it would not remain a trend forever & then we wouldn’t get as many spams.
October 26, 2009 at 12:41 pm | myspace train

Hi, this is a great site, and very well thought out and well written.

Best Regards and Best of Luck
April 8, 2010 at 1:46 pm | Kristi Kristo

That’s correct. Like all the others, I had a twitter account only to spam, but to tell the truth, it didn’t get many $$ at all. I closed it, and now I have another personal twitter account, where I follow only people I’m interested in.