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By: perfectavocado

perfectavocado — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:18:53 +0000

i love your posts… always interesting and always helpful – thank you.

not sure if this is something new (obviously with 11 followers | following 30 | 25 tweets i am not a huge twitter user) but if you click on the username of the spammy spamster, their profile will open and if you click the dropdown ‘friend’ icon there is an option to report them for spam.

i don’t even get excited with i get a new follower anymore – i know its only a money making scheme or some random tart offering some sexual… boospam.

anyway – thanks again for your posts, always a pleasure with my morning coffee.

By: WebEstate

WebEstate — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:28:52 +0000

I agree with you whole-heartedly. My only reservation with the report spam button is the people who make it their over-zealous mission in life to find and report spam. It would be great if the did just that, but often times they allow personal feelings to cause some false reports.

I guess we’ll have to use the @spam method till they can get ahold of a better system.

BTW, I can only assume that those 10 followers the Twitter spam account had were auto-follows.

Keep up the great posts and best of continued success!

- @webestate

By: Graphic Design Blog

Graphic Design Blog — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:42:04 +0000

I agree with you…like othe social networking sites Twitter should have a report spam button. Some time back, sort of same thing happened with me and really wanted to report Twitter.

By the way, i really liked your blog

By: Shirley - Velvet Blues

Shirley - Velvet Blues — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:27:42 +0000

Yeh, this is a big problem with Twitter. But then again, spam is everywhere.

But the way that Twitter works makes it easily exploitable. I mean, so many people create their Twitter accounts for promotion because the platform makes it easy to connect with many others and send out information. The people that we call ‘spammers’ are just worse than others at disguising their attempts for self (or affiliate) promition… lol.

By: fas

fas — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:30:00 +0000

This is bad, but your not the only one facing Twitter spam. Its all over the place and thankfully Twitter suspends the account asap.

By: Alina Popescu

Alina Popescu — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:48:00 +0000

Unfortunately, this kind of accounts are spreading fast. I just ignore them most of the times, but they should also be reported. Yes, little time, but otherwise they can nag people on an on.

By: Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:08:37 +0000

I have seen a whole load of these… Getting annoying but you can see why they do it, they must be promoting affiliate programs and on average 400 out of the 2000 will click.

By: vlad gidea

vlad gidea — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:07:30 +0000

You can’t escape spam. Only Chuck Norris can

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:48:53 +0000

Stanley, you have to agree that a “Report spam(mer)” on the profile page would be a lot quicker than copying the account name from the email, going to Twitter and sending it via @spam.

By: Stanley Tang

Stanley Tang — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:40:38 +0000

They do have a report spam button.

You @spam the name of the person

By: Freebies Mentor

Freebies Mentor — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:52:51 +0000

I completely agree with you. There are way too many spam accounts on Twitter. It is time to start reporting them but it would be nice if we could just click a button.

By: Patrick DeVivo

Patrick DeVivo — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:19:27 +0000

Good idea – twitter should include a report spam button

By: JL Hill

JL Hill — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:48:48 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more!