[LINK] twitter follow spam bots

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Kim Holburn 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.
> 

Though I use a Twitter account, and subscribe to a few RSS Twitter feeds, I
haven't signed up to Facebook.

When I got the first facebook invite, I was given an option to not receive
anymore. With hindsight, Face book now knows who my friends are but I don't.

You are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Can we pick the trolls on
<http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23carbontax>?

Marghanita
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