Twitter is used for Spam no one is surprised

Marketers and other folks will go anywhere do anything within the social networking space. Boundaries do not exist, and in general folks that market on the Internet are as busy using web 2.0 tools to send their message as you are talking back and forth with your friends.

Download Squad has a great article on twitter spam, and the problems that ensues when people randomly start following people because they decided to follow them.

Twitter users are increasingly starting to question whether the frequent number of Twitter accounts that are following them are actually people, or simply a form of Twitter spamming. The rule of thumb with that sort of question is usually that if you think something nefarious might be going on, unfortunately, you’re probably right. Source: Download Squad

The cool part is that there is also an introduction here to twitter twerp scan as a way to identify those folks who are spamming, although the thought that we are having is that this is only going to be as good as the collective community that starts adding things to the twerp scan process.

Askimet and other spam tools, even stopbadware.org are only as good as their scanners, and only as good as the people who report sites. There also has to be a mechanism to challenge the entry in twitter twerp, some nasty marketing folks think it is just fine to lodge complaints against all their competitors in systems like this.

Business is a nasty thing to be involved with, and if you don’t believe us, check out the Chilling Effects Clearing house to learn all about businesses that try to claim copyright against their competitors, and use the DMCA and other rules to get their competitors right off the Internet.

In all, it is a good idea, but as spammers get more creative, and marketers seem to be willing to take up any way to get their message across, all web 2.0 social systems need to take precautions. This should be a standard part of the business model for anyone that is hoping to make money off of user contributed content. Spammers are good, quick to hop on any new technology, and if they are allowed free reign on a system, will quickly figure out ways to saturate said system until it is no longer usable by anyone.

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