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How To Spot a Twitter Spammer
As you can see, the picture looks fun and friendly, it even has kind of a conversational feel to it. But I don't know this person and I have no interest in an iPad 3. I haven't even mentioned the iPad 3!
This is about the same as above, but of course it's a different spammer. Back in the day, you would never see a spammer with a picture, it'd always be blank, but the spammers are catching on and realized they need a pic. But that still doesn't save them.
Then there are spammers that just straight up send you a link. I don't know this person so I immediately marked as spam.
It's very important to realize that you should never click on these links. If you don't know the person sending you these tweets, then just don't click.
Most of them will just lead you to some landing page that looks fancy and shiny in which it's trying to get you to enter in your email and other personal information so they can continue to spam you in the future.
But some of them will lead you straight into a virus.
It's been interesting to see the evolution of spammers and to see what they're targeting on any given day/week/month. Apple products are of course very popular because everyone wants them, but I've seen some for random giveaways.
Spammers target certain keywords and when one is said, they latch onto it and send a reply in the hopes that you'll be gullible enough to click on it.
What to do when faced with a spammer:
Mark as spam & block immediately.Twitter does get notifications whenever someone marks a Twitter user or tweet as spam and while it may take them a while to get rid of the account, the more people that mark as spam, the quicker Twitter will take action. As a side note:
Happy Birthday Twitter!
So, how much spam do you encounter on Twitter?
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I also hate those profile with no profile pics. There are many follow friday spammers too.
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Ah yes, follow friday spammers can be just as bad! Thanks for the comment!
Hi Morgan,
It’s true I get a couple of these tweets a day and it’s quite irritating. The good thing is how simple it is to report these annoyances as spam – even from our iPhones. But it always leaves me thinking “what’s the point? Do you truly think you’re going to get something from me? What a waste of your time! (And mine!)” But I suppose people do unfortunately fall for these types of tweets, and thats just because they aren’t aware.
Great job with this post, perhaps you’ll save people from a virus!
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Hey Melissa!
Yes you’re right, they’re very easy to mark as spam!
And you’re also right, unfortunately, in the sense that there are Twitter newbies that might not know they’re a spammer, this is especially true when a spammer just sends a link & nothing else. It LOOKS harmless enough.
Thanks for the comment!
Hi Morgan,
So, here is the post we have discussed on Twitter
After all those email scams, social media is the favorite place for scammers these days. It is not much difficult to avoid them. All you have to do is to ignore all those luring messages appearing on your screen
Really an informative and helpful post for all….Great job, dear
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Hey Shaan!
Yep, here it is! I was just about to send you a tweet about it.
You are absolutely right. Scammers thrive on social media because it’s actually a bit too easy to spam people.
Yep, just ignore and move on.
Thank you!
It doesn’t even phase me at this stage, but yes important for people that don’t know to not hit the links. I’m sure they get plenty of clicks though. They are definitely getting better and at least making an attempt to look legit. Now I see them bio’s as well. That’s relatively new.
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Hey Steve,
Yeah, they are definitely getting “smarter”. You can still clearly tell who is and who isn’t a spammer, but like you said, they’re just filling out their profile a bit more to make it LOOK like they’re real.
Thanks for the comment!
Good News.
One of the major TWITTER SPAM software i.e TWEETATTACKS has been taken down by TWITTER recently
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That IS good news!
OMG – I have seen a ton just this morning and reported some for the first time because I could not take it any longer. How stupid do these spammers think we are?
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Hi Lisa!
They must think we are pretty stupid.
However, they must get a few click throughs in order to justify the amount of spam they put out there and the fact that they’re still doing it. I do wonder how much gain they actually get from it, though.
What I hate especially is when something comes as a hijacked direct message warning you of all the bad things being said about you. That’s just nasty… I guess this is another result of someone getting sucked in by a spam link.
Great advice – wish more people would follow it.
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Hi Andy,
Spammers will do anything to get a rise out of people and ultimately click the spammy link. It’s truly sad – but as long as we know how to combat it, then more and more people will stop clicking on those links and validating the existence of spammers.
Thanks for the comment!