This article was published on November 1, 2009

Spam Arrives In Twitter Lists


Spam Arrives In Twitter Lists

Spam expands to fill all corners, Twitter being no exception. We now have a confirmed example, via my Twitter account, of spam lists being created to promote a single user, the propagator of those lists.

Here is the spam list, not very subtle:

spam in lists

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Here is the list of lists made by the user, notice a trend? [more pics after the jump]

list spame 2

And finally, the user herself!

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Twitter needs to implement a “report list as spam” feature right away. In fact, combine the two, and have a “report list and spam and block user” button. Ah, Twitter, I love you, but you and spam have been trysting for just too long.

Anyone else seeing this?

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