Comments on: 3 Ways to Recognize Bots and Spammers on Twitter

By: jacobian

jacobian — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:28:08 +0000

great insights,but you can use the block option to prevent this kind of bots

By: Guillermo | Social apps

Guillermo | Social apps — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:28:30 +0000

I’ve just written a blog post with more tips to identify Twitter bots. I thought it could complementary to this one. Here you have it: http://bit.ly/bAdc2x
Cheers,

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:03:37 +0000

Check the date/time that tweets go out for a given account. Many bots still post at regular intervals. People, generally don’t.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:24:47 +0000

Great article! I have always wondered about some of those twitter sites and really do hate those spammy dm’s. would rather they don’t send me any unless I won something!!

By: pet memorial plaque

pet memorial plaque — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:25:51 +0000

Good article, I have in fact come across duplicate profile pictures, I think you are on to something. Thanks for the tips

By: Waqas Lone

Waqas Lone — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:55:16 +0000

well true, I really need to workout n check how many bots are following me

By: Dayne Shuda

Dayne Shuda — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:16:30 +0000

Great tips. It’s hard to spot the spam sometimes, but your advice makes it easier.

By: PetersOpinion

PetersOpinion — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:55:31 +0000

Great post addressing a serious issue. As always a small amount shows the bad behavior, which influences the rest. Anyhow, I agree that commercial activities on Twitter are allowed, as long as they are targeted. In that case I wouldn’t call it spam.

I fully agree that accepting new followers increases your group of friends and in fact it is the only way to start interaction. Twitter shouldn’t be only about sending, although it feels like this is getting the mainstream. To find this interaction you need to choose the people you follow carefully.

To prevent “spam”, fortunately I do not have too much, I stopped using all kind of auto followers. That is one of the best tips mentioned above. It generated too many accounts that I did not want to follow. I am still cleaning up. While cleaning don’t forget to “block” the suspected spammers, just to prevent that you coincidently refollow again.On my blog I tried to describe how I try to manage my followers list and especially how to find some great people to follow. Feel free to read: http://bit.ly/BGxaJ.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:42 +0000

Nathan,
My apologies, you are most correct, I had not read the comments and just fired off an answer without researching it. I did check out Tweetchuck.com and think it is a wonderful resource to use to vet spammers.
So please accept my apologies, some of us do care and send out numerous tweets (automated) yet they have been met with open arms.

By: Nathan Hangen

Nathan Hangen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:09 +0000

Scott,

If you read through the comments you’ll see that I’m not dismissing quoting as a practice, just as a method to sneak in links. Quoting is great, but as the sole source of content…I’m not so sure.