I’m starting to wonder how much longer I’ll be a fan of Twitter as a source of conversation. I can still see using it as an information resource, but I find myself tweeting less and less.
Why you ask? Because of the spam @replies. I keep getting them, and I despise them. It seriously feels like an invasion of privacy. So now, every time I go to tweet, I find myself editing out keywords, name brands, and half the time I delete the tweet entirely without posting.
For Instance …
In response to a tweet about writing:
In response to tweeting about an iPad app:
And I’ve had a variety of spam tied to absolutely nothing.
Yes, there are times when tweeting a brand works. I wrote something this morning about AT&T U-Verse and immediately got a response back from someone on their social media team, asking how they could help. But, that was useful. It wasn’t spammy, it wasn’t random, it wasn’t pushing me to another website or to a contest or to a document that I wouldn’t dare open.
How about you? Are you seeing more spam @ replies and does it change what you put out there or do you just ignore it like spam email?
I report them and so that cancels out my annoyance, haha 🙂
I did mark them as blocked, but didn’t think to report 🙂
Oh man, writing twitter spam is the worst!
Oh man, writing twitter spam is the worst!
Nikki, I feel your pain! I even put together a post about it (including a list of some of the worst words) and there was a lot of other suggestions for words to avoid: http://wrightcreativity.com/2011/03/words-to-avoid-on-twitter-unless-you-like-spam/
Ooh, thanks for the post!
I do report them whenever I can. Nice way of putting it Nikki. @mmazroui