Comments on: Rooting Out Fake, Spammy Twitterers

By: p0ps

p0ps — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:50:02 +0000

I agree and applaud your criteria for weeding out low quality twitters. I over-did following at first, now I'm cutting down using criteria similar to yours. My main blog is my Flickr stream and I use Dave Winer's auto tweet from Flickr. I tweet this way once, sometimes twice a day. I worry if this is too much, but I also tweet links to stories I like and tweet personal comments and @ responses to other's interesting tweets. I try to keep the mix interesting, not tweeting more than once per hour, usually only three or four times per day. And always attempt I enjoy reading a lot of tweets from those I follow and appreciate their links.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:11:27 +0000

Yep – I totally don't mind if a blogger shares a link every once in a while sprinkled with other stuff, but yeah – it's a personal pet peeve of mine when each twitter is just a link to their blog and nothing else.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:21:17 +0000

Heh, whoops…re-reading more carefully, it seems you might do the same.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:20:25 +0000

That's fair. Another rule I tend to follow is that I don't follow someone that I wouldn't be able to read daily.

People who post every single blog article link to Twitter bother me immensely – that's why we've got RSS feeds, c'mon. If I wanted your articles, I'd visit your blog and subscribe there.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:28:52 +0000

Aw, I think stuff on a cat is cute.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:27:29 +0000

Yeah, our cats thought so, too.

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Stop Twitter Spam » Rooting Out Fake Spammy Twitterers — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:06:39 +0000

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By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:32:08 +0000

They're choking that cat with a scarf!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I have a program that automatically friends all who follow me, and then I manually unsubscribe from them if they're spammers. It's pretty effective.

By: Ross McKillop

Ross McKillop — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:14:27 +0000

That guy in the first icon you used is shockingly handsome.