Comments on: A Bunch Of Hot Spammers Had The Day Off Of Work LOL.

By: Slava V

Slava V — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:48:04 +0000

“Getting ready for work! Hehe just got out of the shower pervs”

Pervs – well deserved, as this surely was written by a guy. You know, someone from marketing… with a weird beard…

By: jv

jv — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:11:01 +0000

im shocked, shocked I say! spammers on twitter. Thanks MG or informing me.. i dodged the bullet there.

By: Alright, When I Say Go, Hit the Spam Twitter Button With All Accounts | Guilda Blog

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:11:16 +0000

[...] When a product becomes ubiquitous, it means you get the good with the bad, the well-meaning with the nefarious, the intellectual with the sloppy. As we saw with e-mail being overtaken with aggressive marketers, spam and eventually, viruses, the same activity has propogated to every social network with momentum – including the 419 scam on Facebook we discussed in January, and the many different reports of spam on Twitter. (See: TechCrunch’s coverage of similar nonsense earlier today: A Bunch Of Hot Spammers Had The Day Off Of Work LOL.) [...]

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:16:28 +0000

Twitter is great for leadgeneration, or should I say spamming!

By: Robert N

Robert N — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:17:57 +0000

Come on man… With more than a trillion pages on the net there has to be something great to report other than twitter!

By: Dean Higginbotham

Dean Higginbotham — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:03:22 +0000

Isn’t this what happened with MySpace?

Twitter, please, please figure out a solid method of keeping this off.

Thanks
–Dean

By: Jehosephat

Jehosephat — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:00:42 +0000

who ya callin’ common?!

By: Envy

Envy — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:59:39 +0000

I take it back, I am a moron.

By: Jehosephat

Jehosephat — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:59:15 +0000

That actually isn’t a bad idea.

Or, what about a social media channel separate from the main startup feed?

It could work.

By: Envy

Envy — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:58:07 +0000

-tering fool!

By: Jehosephat

Jehosephat — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:56:14 +0000

Give it up Petey.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:18:33 +0000

You aren’t sorry.

By: kels

kels — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:46:21 +0000

I have seen what I thought were fake accounts with hot girls where they follow tons of people and only have a few tweets and few followers but they never had a link in the bio.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:13:25 +0000

It gets even worse! I found out last night I was being followed by @ChelsieGMullins. If you go to her Twitter page, it’s a pic of a cute hipster girl, and all her posts are like:

God I miss him. :/ This 14 hour time difference is not okay. haha.

We’re dorks. I love it.

However, they are all followed by urls that take you to porn or dating sites. And if you click on her personal url, http://revtwt.com/, it’s a place where you sign up to post bogus tweets, and get paid everytime someone clicks on them.

But the crazy part is how authentic her page looks. Like, you would have NO idea it’s fake. These people are f’in tricky.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:07:04 +0000

Why are constructive comments necessary? It’s just a (self-professed) blog.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:04:48 +0000

Duh. That’s the point.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:04:08 +0000

Consider the possibility that you have no life.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:03:11 +0000

You forgot that mambo dogface in the banana patch.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:01:39 +0000

The Game: You Just Lost It

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:00:20 +0000

Well, you could be an adult and not threaten, but actually leave. What on TC is exclusive AND useful?

It seems evident that Arrington came back from his little spitty-party and decided that he wanted more of that, to be the Tech TMZ.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:57:02 +0000

Why would an investor stop talking up their book?

By: EH

EH — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:54:59 +0000

How could you say something like that? There’s just nothing else happening in online business right now. It’s really is just that simple: Twitter is the only thing happening, and the only thing worth paying attention. Unless there’s some controversy about Facebook that day, or there was a ripple in the iPhone market.

Just looking at the last 30 headlines in my RSS sidebar here it’s plain to see that TechCrunch is more about the marketplace than the business, than it used to be. Hey, we’re all subject to pop culture, just think of TC as the Daily Webbies. Tiffany Shlain should be proud.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:16:44 +0000

Spam is a way of life on Twitter.

There are much more interesting topics to cover such as why the Nielson Twitter stats are wrong (wait you did that, but missed the fact the 1,000/following a day limit is making this problem worse).

Or that the 3% that follow all @ replies are the ones in the right and Twitter should flip the switch that way.

Or the very fact TechCrunch is covering sockington is turning the cat into a celebrity.

Anyway, keep the Twitter stories coming…

By: Robert N

Robert N — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:29:53 +0000

I bet you guys have got shares in twitter, that could be the reason why you are writing so much about twitter…

MG, Seriously, it’s obvious that there will be hell lot of stuff about twitter, and it’s not really necessary to post about everything that happens with twitter… if you go on with these twitter stuff on techcrunch, it would be plain boring… as an alternative you could ad twitcrunch to the techcrunch network and keep on posting there…

By: Giancarlo Caparo

Tue, 19 May 2009 13:03:38 +0000

damn it. I thought all those hot girls following me were real. FML Twitter needs a spam option, if not a spam directory where people can report bots and spammers.