Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Twitter’s Spam User

Posted in Memes, Twitter by Elliott Back on March 21st, 2009.

Twitter runs a little account @spam where you can send direct messages to point out spammers:

Name Spam Watch
Location Twitter HQ
Bio Suspect Twitter spam? Follow us and send a DM!

Today they’ve been quite noisy, inundating me with a flurry of poorly thought-out, and then corrective, text messages.

twitter-spam

Hurray, I’m being spammed by the spam-reporting service….

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 4:51 pm and is tagged with spam reporting, twitter, reporting service, hurray, spammed, text messages. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

2 Responses to “Twitter’s Spam User”

  1. Weenis says:

    Spam, oh the horror.

  2. Joe Pesci says:

    That happened to me too! :(

    they sure need to fix things to scale to the levels that they are promising to….

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