A few months back I was beeing bombarded by what seemed an ever-increasing number of twitter spammers. This means they’re following me. To end the insanity I finally decided to make my profile private which eliminated almost all of the spam but seriously crippled the number of friend requests I was getting.
I carried this on for about two months, twitter became less active for me, not much in the way of new friend requests and ultimately a complete drop-off of activity.
Yesterday I decided to unlock my profile again, and resort to the manual removal/blocking of Twitter spam. Within a few hours I had a bunch of new requests and Twitter activity seems to be increasing more ever since.
So the question boils down to this: To protect, or not? Do you protect your Twitter?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Raul // Aug 23, 2008 at 7:52 am
I debated about this when I found out that there are about a gazillion different services that search and index your Twitter stuff. But truth be told, I don’t think that I would be able to block every twitter spambot. So, I just try to be “politically correct” on what I tweet
2 Plate Show // Aug 23, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Plate Show’s twitter updates are protected and I certainly don’t grant access to all even though I have a brand and a web show I want to promote to as many folks as possible. User names are usually a pretty good indication (6 figures, marketing, etc.) that the person who created that account is solely in the game to talk, not converse.
I wish twitter would enable personal messages for those requesting to follow so that a legitimate follower could set themselves apart from the mass followers. Twitter is cool but someone will build a better mousetrap… eventually.
3 Herne // Aug 23, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I haven’t blocked my Twitter feed, nor do I follow back everyone that follows me. (I’m not sure why complete strangers follow me anyway!)
Twitter has been cracking down on spammers lately, it seems that they have people that monitor blocking activity and if they see certain users being blocked repeatedly then they check out that account and flag it as “suspicious” until they can figure out if it’s a real person or a bot… That’s what they said on their blog anyway.
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