What is going on with Twitter spam?
In the past 24 hours, I’ve probably gotten 40 new followers that were all a variation of the same type of spam. They all had an almost identical avatar, and all had one update with a spammy email address.
I woke up this morning, and this is what I saw:
I know that spam is a fact of life, but the thing is bothersome is the amount of people that are following these spammers back. This one account is following 1,300+ people, and has 81 people following back. Who are these people? There is no reason that anyone for any reason would choose to follow this account. They’re just all other spammers and people that are auto-following anyone that followers them. I guess if these people figure they can get a 5% return follow rate, it’s worth it. The problem is, the others clearly don’t read a word that they say. It’s nothing more than a spam echo-chamber, and it’s annoying.
I wish Twitter would figure out a way to block auto-following, and it would get rid of a lot—if not most—of this. I’d guess that if there was no auto-following these spammers would have almost no return followers.
I could just ignore this, but for some reason this is so clear and obvious that it annoys the hell out of me.
