Comments on: Annoying Twitter Spam

By: Sol Young

Sol Young — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:41:08 +0000

Thanks Chad for finding it (and thanks @hidama for connecting us!). There's
a lot of great things that could be done here, and hopefully before the
service becomes too painful to use. Right now there are a couple bad apples,
but it could get ugly in a hurry.

The block feature is fine, but it only applies to the person blocking. It
doesn't do any good for alerting others, which makes it useless ultimately
in doing good for others. What really needs to be out there is an alert or
personal ranking system.

Twitter + personal security certificate = awesome mashup.

Again, glad to have met you virtually and thanks again @hidama.

Cheers!
Sol

By: Sol Young

Sol Young — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:41:08 +0000

By: Chad Spacey

Chad Spacey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:44:01 +0000

Thanks for that mention! Thanks to @hidama for linking me to this post! I'll add another thing about the Spam button idea... I like it when you get an email from from a follower and possible person you would follow that inside the email is the first twitter post. You'll find that most of the spam is in the first post. If that first twitter post were part of the email, you could then block all email with the link/address inside. Thus saving you time going to look at all the Twitter posts. Just a little added bonus.

I'd also like to dig my friend @untulis for giving me a hard time last night (August 19th) when I post the picture with the Spam button. He twitted to me that Twitter already and a block button. I looked for the block button found it near the bottom and very small.

Thanks again,
Chad

By: Sol Young

Sol Young — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:17:17 +0000

I never follow them. Perhaps a spam registry service that various
Twitter clients integrate. akismet wouldn't work at that point, but a
webmail service could be interesting.

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Annoying Twitter Spam : blog edvdbox — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:07:07 +0000

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By: pico

pico — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:39:07 +0000

how bout spammer list on a page called hall of shame… or ask akismet help? Lucky me, I don't follow those annoying accounts…