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It’s Not Spam, It’s Marketing On Twitter

Started by Corvida · 1 year ago

There’s been a recent spike in the number of spam on

Twitter

. However, let me explain that spam on Twitter might not be what you think it is. Spam on Twitter consists of the most random…things…following you on Twitter. They may not necessarily be people and all they do is promote their site. It’s […] ... Continue reading »

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  • Thank's for subscribing...

    You are right... maybe I'm a little spammer... but this an eficient way to promote my WPZoom...
  • Not sure I understand, how is it spam if they follow you and you don't follow them? You can choose not to receive their updates which is how they are pushing out their messages. ~ Lee
  • It's spam because it's an inaccurate analysis of who's following me.

    At the same time, I manually go through my list of followers every now
    and then in case I'm not following someone that I should be. The
    amount of spammers following me makes that a pretty tedious process.

    Also, some of these spam followers can use your messages to find new
    content and sites to scrape.

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