Twitter Spam Accounts
Twitter spam is driving me mad!
Ok, so approximately 75% of my followers this morning were newly created spam accounts. How can you tell? Well it’s not easy, but there are 3 particular ones doing the rounds at the moment. These are indentifiable by the contents of their ‘Bio’. There are literally thousands of these accounts being created so whatch out. If an account has any of the following 3 Bio’s then give it a miss, it is automatically created, and spam.
1. Discuss Yoga, Discover life, tell you YOGA STORY,YOGA DIARY,YOGA KNOWLEDGE,WEIGHT LOSS,BEAUTY – These twitter accounts lead to a site yoga-diary.us AVOID
2. I’m an ordinary people who are using twitter. I’d like to collect useful twitter tips and categorise them properly .
3. This the land of trick,here you find some trick about wordpress,google adsens,twitter,joomly,seo firefox. – These accounts lead to a site called dailyonetrick.com AVOID
4. Look out for the name “Michelle Yeong”. This is another automatically created account name, with hundreds of different versions.
5. The name “John Google”. As above
6. The BIO: “Here you can Find all about Cooking Fans, pictures, photos, videos, fans, biography, reviews and everythings.”
This bio points through to a site ‘cooking-fans.info’ and is just a crappy blog with a bit of adsense on it. There must be so many twitter accounts now pointing to this site that I wonder why Twitter can’t keep control and block them all.
I think the new Twitter interface is great, gives you a better view of what someone is about.
7. If you see a post that says “I like make friend, please come with me,I love you!” it is a spam…there’s hundreds like it. I really don’t think I needed to tell you that!
8. Have seen another regular update from dozens of different profiles. Any updates that say “My mother was sick, in a bad mood the past few days!” AVOID.
Come on spammers, sort your grammar out!
There may be more, and if you know of any please add them to the comments on this page and we can warn people awayfrom these destructive, time-wasting spammers!
Thanks
Mark
Great Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools Resource:
I just wanted to list some of the great, and free, Twitter tools that are out there.
www.twellow.com – the Yellow Pages of the Twitter world. Great directory to find twitters of same or similar interest to you.
www.tweetlater.com – my personal favourite. You can organise several twitter accounts, set up and auto DM, auto follow and unfollow, plus you can set tweetlater to post to your twitter accounts while you are asleep, on holiday, walking the dog!
http://nearbytweets.com – Nearby tweets finds people on twitter who are in a similar geographical location to yourself. Especially useful if you are running a local small business, or just want to connect with people in your area.
www.tweetdeck.com is a downloadable twitter interface that allows you send and receive tweets and DM’s, while organising your twitter information into columns for easy reference. It also allows the user to split their followers into groups.
www.twitteranalyzer.com – This web based application is a great tool! Amongst its many features it shows you how many of your followers are online at any given time, giving you maximum exposure if you want to share a link or a post.
The other tool I want to measure is Twitter Smackdown which is a paid tool that I use, but which has enabled me to get a following of over 20,000 in just a few weeks. You don’t need this, but if you want to take your twitter marketing to a different level then this could be a good investment.
There are many, many twitter tools out there, far too many to mention, but as I trial more I will keep this page updated with what works for me!
Thanks
Mark
