I’ve been working on reducing the amount of twitter spam.
To me Twitter Spam is any sort of @ reply or DM that links to a site that tries to hack you back, and it can do so more than you care for.
Here are 5 ways that work for reducing twitter spam:
- The silent cannot be spammed. If you stay quiet for a few days the amount of folks who will spam you goes down.
- Make your account private.
- Prune your account of the spam-like and spam vectors. For me this means removing folks that follow more than have followers or act like bots (because they probably are). This also means using Echofon on the iPhone. Echofon is helpful in that it shows the vector a spammer used to get to me. In this case I might get spammed an at reply every time a certain user “ats” me back. Echofon makes this very obvious.
- Actively block spammers and report them as spam.
- Avoid using terms that spammers like. You know the one’s I mean. I’d mention it here but it would ruin my blog’s ranking. 😀