blocking spammers on twitter

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/2/1 Raffi Jamgotchian <raffi at flossyourmind.com>:
> I think most of those guys follow because many follow reciprocally and
> thus are targets.

Something someone on twitter suggested is that messages with @name in
are always delivered to the person. On the web interface this is only
true if you are following the person sending the message (hence me
accidentally ignoring a few people I wasn't following) but I've just
started testing twhirl and found that that does put any message with
@name in my list of messages. This then exposes me to spam. So,
depending on your interface spammers may be able to get you see their
spam.


> On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I've just passed 100 followers on twitter, most are legit but I know
> > that some are spammers. Is it worth blocking the spammers or should I
> > just leave them?
> >
> > I'm trying to work out what benefits a spammer can get by following
> > me, the obvious one is that I blindly follow him back and then receive
> > his spam, is there anything beyond that? Is there any indication that
> > one spammer will look at anothers list and follow the same people?
> >
> > Really I supposed I'm trying to work out the twitter spam business
> > model .
> >
> > Robin
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