A New Breed of Twitter Spam   - 1,644 Views, 1 Comment

Yes, I’d run into a new breed of spammer - pushing a new breed of Twitter spam.

You see, this type of Twitter spam - this Twitter spammer - doesn’t actually care if you ever follow them - and they certainly aren’t actually reading the 32,244 people they are ‘following’.

Here’s how it works: you get the notice from Twitter that TwitterSpamMan is following you. Now, naturally, you are curious who it is, and so you go to their Twitter profile and, you naturally click the link they provide in their profile to tell you all about themselves.

Under normal circumstances, this would lead to their legitimate business or personal website but (and you see where this is going, don’t you?), the link in TwitterSpamMan’s profile just happens to lead to a site which is nothing but a webpage full of ads - won’t you click on one while you’re here and help line TwitterSpamMan’s pockets? (Not!)

In this particular jerk spammer’s case (aren’t you glad that I’m holding back and not telling you how I really feel?), there was absolutely nothing on his website site other than ads - unless you count the “buy this domain!” link!

Twitter, of course, has no mechanism for reporting such a miscreant because, technically, they aren’t doing anything wrong.