Twitter Spammer
Yeah I twitter, but its not like I twitter all the time… Well most of the time, Ok I twitter all the time. I have been a part of twitter for sometime, and I have always enjoyed it. Lately I have noticed that I seem to have become a target for twitter spammers. Now between last night at midnight and six o’clock this morning I was followed by 22 people who in those 6 hours have had their accounts suspended for being scum sucking bottom feeding spammers.
22 people in six hours that is one every 16 and half minutes. That’s just a little over the top. Now it seems to me that between the spammers trying to use twitter to make money, the social gurus who want to teach you how to use twitter to make money, and people who just want to send out tweet after tweet screaming HEY LOOK AT MY WEBSITE (www.jtindie.com) or GET YOUR FREE RINGTONES HERE AT PRICES SO LOW THEY”RE CRAZY!!!… have always been there but it seems that now they are literally crawling out of the woodwork.
We have a couple special someones to thank for that and I want to thank them personally.
Ashton Kutcher, Oprah, You didn’t let me down, Twitter was a wonderful Beautiful thing and You did just what I knew you would, what celebrities always do with wonderful and beautiful things, crush them like the hopes and dreams of a good-natured but simple-minded child.
Before you ask, yes I have always had to deal with spammers on twitter, never in these numbers but they have always been there. I used to ignore them, then I would just block them. Since the accounts of spammers don’t last that long I wondered about how useful blocking them was but it did make me feel better.
You see, i have had this hate/ridicule relationship with spammers. I have always considered them one of the groups of people it should be legal to water board, not for information just for the fun of it. Still some of the emails I got from them, or should I say from the rich dying lady/Nigerian banker/Google exec who has decided that I am only one worthy enough or lucky enough or gullible enough to receive the millions of dollars that just happen to laying around unclaimed. For awhile I could at least enjoy the humor of it all, and the wonder that in order for these emails to keep appearing in my spam folder that must mean that people are actually falling for them, at least enough people that I get the same email 10 20 sometimes 30 times a day.
I once went a week without deleting the spam in my gmail spam folder so I could add up the amount of money I had reportedly “WON” and well, 250 million dollars would go a long way, as long as I didn’ leave the states. More often than not I would just mass delete the several hundred spams I got every day and not think anymore of it. I think I have started to get a vindictive streak toward twitter spammers now.
Now it seems that I am only satisfied when I don’t just block the twitter Spammers but actually send out a public tweet with there name and the HASHTAG of #spammer, then I block them. As I said earlier this has very little usefulness. since most of the twitter spammers are bots and almost all of them are suspended within hours. But it does make me feel better so I guess its OK. Its not like they are real people anyway.
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