Twitter Spam – I Knew It Wouldn’t Take Long
Beware, it has started.
Twitter Spam.
If you haven’t been hit yet, just wait, I am sure it won’t be long. 3 times in 3 days I have been ‘followed’ by someone and after clicking through to their profile (like I do for everyone who Follows me – don’t you?) I am met with something like the image below :
So how do you not get sucked in by this?
I think it is going to be hard as the spammers get a little smarter.
This one’s account is/was http://twitter.com/BerthaA1975
I can choose not to click on links like that, but how do you know if a twitter account is a spammy time waster or not?
Would you click on these accounts?
I hope you would, as I follow them and they are interesting! But you could be forgiven (knowing about Twitter spam) that they could look suspiciously like generated spam names… (sorry to use you as an example guys!)
Twitter must act quickly on some though as I clicked one the other day and I got a Twitter page suggesting the acount had been closed because of ‘unusual activity’ or something that that effect. But it would be hard to autmoatically monitor properly as many people starting twitter accounts will find a bunch of people to follow straight off the bat (nothing wrong with that), just like these spam accounts are doing.
And, often the links are cloaked using URL shortening services so if the surrounding text is enticing enough how many twitterers are going to throw a curiousity click that way and get infected by some spyware on the resulting landing page?
I hope not too many…
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