Fight Twitter spam: Join #BlockMonday

No! Don't spam your tweet stream!

OK, we've already seen "Follow Friday" abused by spammers who vomit an endless stream of IDs in order to appear as a "mention" for the people identified; I block these folks instantly.

Now you're actually encouraging spam victims to pollute their own tweet-streams with spam reports? How would this be less annoying? And how soon before the spammers use this as a revenge tactic.

I applaud the idea of actively identifying and blocking Twitter spammers. But nobody should pollute their tweet-stream with such reports.

monday spam block

i would not even twitt spams names saying i'm blocking them up. just take a few minutes(same minutes you'd spend using a 'pro' tool for that) on mondays, and block manualy a few of them. not difficult to detect them at all.

I'm sorry (not really) but

I'm sorry (not really) but LudditeTuesday (first Tuesday of each month) is what I'd like to see. All cellphones blocked (lives will be saved), all twitter, all blogging, all email, all websites, all computing, all TV, all radio, all electronics BLOCKED. Just one day each month when humanity gets some peace and sanity, and is actually forced to live and communicate face-to-face with each other. Cancer and blogging are the two most devastating diseases of our generation.

@twitbroom has been doing

@twitbroom has been doing what you propose for the last 7 weeks. Twitbroom now has more than 10,000 supporters and has tweeted more than 8,000 possible spamming suspects for the mass to verify and take action! Twitbroom supporters are using #twitspam to notify each other.

a bit leery

I agree something must be done about the spam on twitter, however I'm just a bit leery about having a #blockmonday event. What if someone decided they just don't like you and posts your name? How many will block you just because someone said so? What's to prevent spammers from announcing YOU should be blocked?
Several months ago I made a joke on twitter about the amount of spam. One follower didn't read it correctly and accused me of spam. She blocked my account and reported it to twitter. Within minutes, several of her friends did the same, and RT'd her post. Someone pointed out to her that I had made a joke, she re-read my post and immediately apologized. But the damage was done and I've been paying for that joke ever since.

Plagiarism

I'm becoming concerned about the habit of Twitter spammers to copy other people's tweets.

I have a friend who used a hashtag to live tweet from a conference last month. Those tweets are now being retweeted, but without attribution, ad nauseum, even a month later, by the likes of bell4444Barbara, Lorry46peach, and joker73Dorothy.

I report each account to @spam, but there are only so many hours in the day...

Yes, something must be done!

I was not amused this morning to check on a new follower and see an X-rated photo on that Twitter page....