CHART OF THE DAY: Twitter Pulls The Plug On Spammers; I Lose 7% Of My Network
Good news: Twitter has finally taken heed of millions of irritated users and hit the off switch on thousands of spam accounts.
The impact on my own network was pretty sizeable – all-told, I’ve lost 246 followers overnight.
Not all of these were spammers. I’ve been optimising my network all week. I’ve also been unfollowing a lot of folk I never actually followed in the first place, including another fifty or so yesterday. All of them, of course, auto-unfollowed me back.
So, I can only assume that as many as 200 people who were following me were spammers – or at least, were classified by Twitter as such. I guess we’ll never know how many legitimate accounts have now been tarred with the wrong brush.
(I actually got off pretty easy; Mark lost about 13 per cent of his team.)
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Hi Sh. I lost around 20% and being a much smaller number than average (100′s only, following my news mag tweets) I was inspecting each new follower out of interest, so knew lots of spammers/campaigners were diluting my stats.
Well, the remainder still has followers like this!! More fine tuning needed?
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Kristina
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ktina7122
Kristina
hit me up on yahoo msger if you want a freebie ~ my id is ktina719 5 days ago
I didnt lose any. That’s the truth, granted I have under 1000! However, I have a trick that helps.
When people follow me, FollowWatch DMs me a list of their names. I check each person out and if they’re spam I automatically block them. That way, I didnt lose any followers (because technically they arent there to see my tweets, they’re hoping I’ll follow them automatically and be spammed – and they’re mostly bots, not real people).
Now if everyone did this, I would hope Twitter would scan to see who is being blocked by the masses and then remove accounts. All they really have to do is scan the trending topics anyway. They never really “pull the plug”, but sometimes they prune the members table
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Jade – I do the same thing, so I don’t think I lost anyone – you can usually tell if they have no profile info or lots of posts about getting “thousands of twitter followers”, “millions of dollars made on the internet” and the like.
I really love it when they try to sell me what I’m selling! Hello! Why would I use your hosting company when I own one already? BYE-BYE!
I don’t want them cluttering up my feed; I have real people to interact with…
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