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Twitter spam, the under loved and Qwitters

By Kevin OKeefe

You can't technically be spammed via Twitter in that you need to agree to follow someone to get the junk they may be tweeting. But that doesn't stop the spammers, the 210,000 underemployed who have self described themselves as social media experts, or the 'under loved' from trying to get you to follow them on twitter. How do they do it? They look for the Twitter users who have a large number of followers (3,000 or more) and start following them. Doesn't matter that person they seek to follow on Twitter is not sharing things of interest to them or is not a person they want to get to know better. Why do they start following random people? They're hoping that they get followed in return. What happens if you don't follow them back? They stop following you...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).