Comments on: Top 10 Twitter Tips & Tools for Fighting Spam

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:39:46 +0000

Re pixl_dave …. I know that twitsweeper.com doesn’t use “follower/following ratios”, or “hasn’t tweeted for N days” to make its decisions… it looks at actual info on the account and the user’s actual tweets to make an “educated assessment” of each follower based upon a number of data points. Anyway, if interested you might want to see what you think….

By: pixl_dave

pixl_dave — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:02:47 +0000

Thank you Doug, I’ll have to check up on twistsweeper, although I feel bad for some of the sugestions that these tools gave, where an honest dude that just started out with low followers count but with a higher following count, got a bad score, and those that are indeed spammy, got great scores and no one complained about them …

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:25:17 +0000

Hello pixl_dave… In answer to your question, I’d suggest trying twitsweeper.com — it has much more detailed criteria to detect undesirable followers….

By: pixl_dave

pixl_dave — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:10:37 +0000

Nice little list, I checked **Twitblock** and unfortunately I found the algorithm they use too basic, or maybe it’s just my standard where I consider obsessive product and affiliate promoters as spammers as well … are there any sites that scan for users like this?

I would love to know such sites, and I would hope that more twitter users think like me, seeing someone posts 3 times the same link to their affiliate link in 1-2 days is no fun for me.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:15:39 +0000

Great ideas, going to put these to good use.

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By: @Nonglin

@Nonglin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:29:21 +0000

Regarding #2 DM Deleter is not working at the moment.

There exists two major ways to prevent DM Spam:
1. Use SocialOomph’s ( http://www.socialoomph.com ) opt out plan.
2. Use Social.too ‘s ( http://socialtoo.com ) opt out plan.

Go to both sites, read the FAQs regarding not receiving auto-DMs and one prevents >80% of DM spam.

By: AllenWebstar

AllenWebstar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:39:39 +0000

I re-tweeted this ! great information, spamming really sucks, and very irritating, this tips helps to control over spam little beat.

By: Paul Tagent

Paul Tagent — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:32:45 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I was hacked this morning and received 25 messages to tell me and lost 25 followers as a result.
Have changed password and will be more vigilant now and employ some of your tactics….

By: denise servente

denise servente — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:18:41 +0000

thats great. thanks

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By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:13 +0000

I use TwitSweeper.com, which gets rid of your spammy or undesirable followers automatically, although you can review/confirm what it finds first, or have it “just do it” on your behalf. It keeps checking and cleaning your list of follows on an ongoing basis.

By: mikewarren

mikewarren — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:55:50 +0000

This is a great post. It helps me a lot, Thanks

By: Murphy

Murphy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:27:24 +0000

Hi,
Thnk you …useful article .
Best regards !

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:26:18 +0000

I have a list of spam I’ve reported and if I find out later the accounts are clearly still being used as spam accounts, I file tickets to twitter support.