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July 24, 2009

Twitter is becoming 1 big spam machine! [pic]

Have you been noticing all the junk ads that are pouring into Twitter?

Check out how much crap I have. All the tweets in the screenshot below came in a 1-minute period today.

In addition to spam, I get crap DM's from people who want me to see what they scored on a quiz or sent me a hug or need me to join their mob.


Comments (17)

Jul 24, 2009
kienan said...
Hope I'm not included in your 'spam'. I absolutely love what you're doing with #mixergy. Wish I could be on all your live calls - very useful.
Jul 24, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
Thanks! I love seeing you @ the live calls.
Jul 24, 2009
Desdemona Bandini said...
Bummer!
Jul 24, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
Yeah. How many of these before the whole service becomes useless?
Jul 24, 2009
mxmiami said...
i dont understand, they obviously dont work, why do they keep doing it?
Jul 24, 2009
Dru Wynings said...
And people wondered why Scoble had to set up a secret twitter account...
Jul 24, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
It's just worth a shot for these guys. They're always testing.

Jul 24, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
I didn't realize he did that.
Jul 24, 2009
David Jaeger said...
Just like email spam (easier), doesn't take much to do, and one sale makes it worthwhile.
Jul 24, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
And there's no reason for them to stop doing it. In the early days of all these social networks it seems spammers can make some money.
Jul 24, 2009
Tony said...
"My Twitter experience is a million times better now without a gazillion random people DM spamming me and all the noise in my twitterstream." (http://twitter.com/johnreese/status/2699980871)

http://www.income.com/blog/2009/07/09/5-reasons-why-twitter-auto-follow-is-bad-marketing/

Jul 24, 2009
Tony said...
one more from John:

"I'm declaring 'Twitter Bankruptcy' and unfollowing all 32,000 I follow. Too much spam and the auto-follow game is worthless."

http://twitter.com/johnreese/status/2505445326

Jul 24, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
But can't anyone send an @whatever message to you and have their message show up in your replies screen?
Jul 25, 2009
Dan said...
You can turn that off in the options setting it so you only receive @ replies from people you follow.
Jul 25, 2009
Threedot said...
Favorite spam DM said they "checked out my site and thought it was awesome". Yeah, I don't have one yet
Jul 25, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I didn't know that. That's pretty good.

Where do I do that? I don't see it?

Thanks Dan.
Jul 25, 2009
Andrew Warner said...
Arch. That's annoying.

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