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Twam!

July 14th 2008 at 2:04 pm

So I’ve been on Twitter for a while, and I was telling a friend lately that there’s always this exciting grace period with a new communications service where no one has yet figured out how to spam it.

Now I’m spotting Twitter spam, where someone signs up to follow you on your twitter feed. Being a curious type, you click on the email to see who just added you, and you get a profile with no tweets and a link in the person’s profile to the service they’re selling.

I’ve thought about this for a while, and I’ve decided to call this Twamming. Or Twam.

Twitter spam.

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3 Responses so far

1. Daniel Spector on Jul 14th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

When you are at their profile, remember to click to block them.

Allegedly, Twitter follows the number of blocks to determine who is a spammer and shut them down.
2. protected static on Jul 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm

I’m amazed at the number of people who let just anyone follow them! I was just twammed (I love it! The word, that is…) a couple of weeks ago by some MLM jackass espousing the virtues of, of all things, the mangosteen. On their Twitter profile, they had something like 1500 people who they were ‘following’ - and some 150 people who had decided to follow the twammer! WTF, people?