[LINK] twitter follow spam bots

[Rachel Polanskis]

On 23/06/2011, at 21:41, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> I have a twitter account.  Mainly because I thought that one day I might try and work out what twitter was about and how to use it, and because every now and then tv shows like qanda tell me I can twitter messages to them although I have never worked out how to do that.   I have never been interested in posting anything on twitter, nevertheless recently I seem to have acquired two followers!!  Their accounts are filled with tweets that are strangely similar and seem like they have been generated by a poor script version of Elisa.
> 
> Perhaps there is some king of twitter follow spam system?
> 
> A quick google gives me how to stop twitter-bot spam.  
> http://jaysontcote.com/2009/08/twitter-management-stop-follower-spam/
> 
> Oh dear.
> 
> And how to unfollow followers:
> https://support.twitter.com/entries/15355-how-to-unfollow-users-on-twitter
> 
> Hmmmm, this account is probably more trouble than it's worth.
> 


This the sort of  thing that worries me....


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All


rachel

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