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Re: Twitter’s 20 Most Prolific Spammer Avatars [Pics]

iBeAdorkable — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:44:22 -0000

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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ScottAllen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:40:55 -0000

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."

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activistgirl — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:16:38 -0000

x300 is constantly following me. I block all the time, but the code just changes & there she is again.

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ronaldredito — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:22:22 -0000

Just checking if I'm on the list. lol

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Jeanne — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:43:31 -0000

unfortunately, twitblock has labeled non-spammers as spammers because of their volume of tweets

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Max Richardson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:11:41 -0000

I'd love to be featured here, I'd be flattered!

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timwhitlock — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:31:26 -0000

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

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Rhys — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:56:00 -0000

you by the looks of it

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Rhys — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:55:04 -0000

I wonder if the people who they actually are know they're being spammed (though the top one looks like some stock imagery).

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George — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:41:08 -0000

I think I've run across a few of these ne'er-do-wells.

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Jimmi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:59 -0000

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.

Electronic Cigarette

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Jimmi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:45:25 -0000

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.

Electronic Cigarette

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MJB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:27:01 -0000

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.

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MJB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:18:00 -0000

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.

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Stu Carter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:25:19 -0000

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.

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grimskin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:17:11 -0000

lol, there is 2 similar avatars in the list

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Dennis Jernberg — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:14:27 -0000

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.

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Parkermcg — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:54:28 -0000

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.

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Trishal Shah — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:38:54 -0000

: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.

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Rakesh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:10:20 -0000

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.

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sandersdesign — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:37:50 -0000

It would be interesting to know the overall percentage of users spamming via Twitter, I'll be giving twitblock a go.

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Abdullatif — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:55:52 -0000

Thank you for make us know.

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Erica — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:45:32 -0000

"twitterfeed" and "Perl Net::Twitter" are two others that are abused by spammers.

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bradhart — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:56:21 -0000

me too