Comments on: 10 Spam / Fake Twitter Clues to Watch For

By: Jeff Crites

Jeff Crites — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:17:48 +0000

You said word for word what I think and do each day. I easily block 70 or more percent of all new follows, as they are all crap like you describe. Painful to slog through it, but I still hand check each profile and stream, hoping to run into quality people each day. The gruel is getting pretty thin.

@brickandclick

By: David_N_Wilson

David_N_Wilson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:58:59 +0000

Well, true enough, but I'd hope the fact that the secrecy has become a problem would encourage you to put the full url in your home page link box. Twitter will only show part of it, but if you mouse over, it will show up the full address at the bottom of the browser and people can know for sure. In your 160 character bio I could see it, but it's not limited in the URL block.

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By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:17:38 +0000

Thanks for the info! I just hope that people use their brains and realize that #2 alone isn't always an indication of a scammer/spammer. Many "regular" people use URL shorteners to display their site, from @wilw to me.

By: David_N_Wilson

David_N_Wilson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:50:33 +0000

You signed up for their service? First thing to do is go back there and cancel, or opt out. I'm pretty sure they have to give that option somehow. I searched it and found this:

http://twitter.com/kenfees/status/2293099276

I found other people who tried changing their passwords to prevent Tweeterfollow from being able to login, and at least a couple of folks only got out of that one by changing their username. I'm sorry to hear you got taken in by this …

By: David_N_Wilson

David_N_Wilson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:50:33 +0000

You signed up for their service? First thing to do is go back there and cancel, or opt out. I'm pretty sure they have to give that option somehow. I searched it and found this:

http://twitter.com/kenfees/status/2293099276

By: Annalie Killian

Annalie Killian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:32:13 +0000

Help….how do you get rid of them once you have fallen for one of these? tweeterfollow dot com to be precise!

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