awesome post, i started making a list myself. HAHA this is awesome
erKURITA
· 3 months ago
I think "clicks" wasn't the word ;)
The amount of the spam accounts is staggering :X
Timmy
· 3 months ago
I tried this and it kept pausing blaming twitter and then finally failed giving an SQL error. I understand it's alpha. But my 1300 followers shouldn't be too many for it to scan.
Csongor Kiss
· 3 months ago
I've got 3 Shelly Ryan (the first) :) awesome list, thanks
Tiffany Dao
· 3 months ago
ahh! i remember blocking those faces!
bradhart
· 3 months ago
me too
Your Name*Ed Doss
· 3 months ago
Tried to scan but it says too many connections. I only have 480.
Tim Whitlock
· 3 months ago
That wasn't followers, that was "too many connections" to the *server*. back up and running on a bigger server now
Tim Whitlock
· 3 months ago
Server currently getting hammered. Sorry folks, I was hoping for a heads up.
Karen Masullo (OPCGal)
· 3 months ago
I think we just crashed TwitBlock :(
justbloglah
· 3 months ago
I blocked those scary faces too.
Eric Matas
· 3 months ago
I don't even know if we can consider the spam on Twitter to be a "problem" or just part of the game. As long as there are people (fools with money), there will be hustlers. And the modern day carpetbaggers can cover a lot of ground online, and they can all be beautiful, sexy women...at least in avatar. Spam just is. Ironically, the spammers take advantage of people who auto-follow. Automating Twitter could be considered just as "bad" as the auto tweets (spam), but is using services like tweetlater.com a bad thing?
Lethal Sheethal
· 3 months ago
Very timely for me! I just blocked a ton of people this AM. What a shame since there is a lot of good conversation on Twitter. I suppose that's reality!
Imran Jafri
· 3 months ago
offtopic. is there anything you can do to improve the site upload time :S}
Prepaid
· 3 months ago
I hate this guys^^
Trigeia Twins
· 3 months ago
Yes, we have noticed a drop in our followers as well. Although that is a good thing if it is dropping spammers form the system. While Twitter is busy fighting spammers many Developers are eager to see Twitter improve platform stability http://www.trigeia.com/article.php?id=73403
CyberDiva2
· 3 months ago
Why don't Twitter use a simple CAPTCHA system to prevent these spam attacks? I'm not all that technical but it seems to me that automated bots could be prevented by having to enter a CAPTCHA code when following someone new or retweeting someone you don't follow. Is this too simplistic? Are there reasons this couldn't be done which I don't know enough about the technical side to understand? I'd be interested to hear what others think.
Joseph
· 3 months ago
Captcha has been broken. Spammers (automatically) screengrab the captcha and use it to authenticate users on shady third party sites and such, then pass that back to the original site.
This would also slow down growth tremendously for legitimate users.
bhartzer
· 3 months ago
I didn't know Joel Comm was a spammer.
Adam Ostrow
· 3 months ago
probably the result of others using his avatar without permission
bhartzer
· 3 months ago
Oh, I get it. Because he's so good looking, people steal his avatar so much.
NielDLR
· 3 months ago
I've noticed some spammers who tweet from an API use. All their tweets come from "API". At first I thought it might be a Twitter client, but later I got a deja vu upon looking at their tweets. I've since unfollowed a very clear case of this happening, but they seem to tweet nonsense really, but it repeats itself, probably at random. However, once you notice the duplicate tweets, some even weeks apart, you notice something fishy.
ericabiz
· 3 months ago
"twitterfeed" and "Perl Net::Twitter" are two others that are abused by spammers.
Tim Whitlock
· 3 months ago
Thanks for the tip ;) although penalizing the use of legitimate apps like Twitterfeed is not practical. I have also noted HelloTxt being used by spammers
Phyllis
· 3 months ago
I started using a thing called truetwit to verify people and keep out spammers. Seems to be working.
Michael J. Kaye
· 3 months ago
I saw a post retweeted by 10 different account all same avatar..
Abdullatif
· 3 months ago
Thank you for make us know.
sandersdesign
· 3 months ago
It would be interesting to know the overall percentage of users spamming via Twitter, I'll be giving twitblock a go.
rakesh patel
· 3 months ago
great idea but at the moment its just not useful enough to use in practice as most of the account it says are spammers aren't. Still, hopefully the service will approve as more users get on board.
Trishal Shah
· 3 months ago
:O Looks like im going to have to look out for some of these. Though i already think i have some following me but i havent yet followed or done anything back yet still waiting.
Parkermcg
· 3 months ago
Twitters effort are making me mad. 10 of my followers I have had a legitimate @ phone and Email conversations with have been deleted from twitter. one was about to tweet some big news. All his tweets and dms deleted. then the others were deleted.
Dennis Jernberg
· 3 months ago
I checked, and found only one "Shelly Ryan" left out of a whole bunch of them. I blocked her (again), of course. I also found CelebSexVideos following me again; I blocked it too. I'm sure I'll get them again, and I'll block again. I'm ahead of Twitter on this.
grimskin
· 3 months ago
lol, there is 2 similar avatars in the list
Stu Carter
· 3 months ago
Haven't yet seen one of these services doing it right. Simply count the number of tweets per hour to score for spamminess. Yes its harder to do than simply count follers.
MJB
· 3 months ago
It would be great if the analysis were able to look at how many real Twitter users block them as well. I use my intuition about whether a new follow is a spammer and block them. Months later I will see them still on Twitter, with only one tweet and thousands of followers so obviously Twitter is not.
Does anyone know how Twitter decides that an account is suspicious and suspends it? I've seen accounts that were suspended before I could look at the profile of a new follower but I've seen suspcious account that exist for months.
MJB
· 3 months ago
You know, I just used Twitblock and was shocked at the number of Twitter users that this service identified as spammers, although I know that they are not. This doesn't seem very reliable to me.
Jimmi
· 3 months ago
Ya spam sucks. I especially hate it when people do comment spam on blogs. I mean come on. who does this. Pay for some advertising or something.
x300 is constantly following me. I block all the time, but the code just changes & there she is again.
ScottAllen
· 3 months ago
I'm also getting really tired of the zillion accounts for "renewable solar info" and "I've done the run, but I'm short on my fundraising goal."
iBeAdorkable
· 2 months ago
uggh i get so annoyed when some one will start following me and i'll look at their profile and it's all written in japanese, for example. mine is all clearly in english. i always wondered how they find me... they don't enev post anything, send me @ replies or direct messages. just follow. whats the point?
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The amount of the spam accounts is staggering :X
This would also slow down growth tremendously for legitimate users.
although penalizing the use of legitimate apps like Twitterfeed is not practical.
I have also noted HelloTxt being used by spammers
Does anyone know how Twitter decides that an account is suspicious and suspends it? I've seen accounts that were suspended before I could look at the profile of a new follower but I've seen suspcious account that exist for months.
Electronic Cigarette
Electronic Cigarette
they don't enev post anything, send me @ replies or direct messages. just follow. whats the point?