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Is 27 million messages a lot? I'm not sure if this is a testament to how good facebook is at fighting spam, or a media error.
by georgeglue1 11y ago
Is 27 million messages a lot? I'm not sure if this is a testament to how good facebook is at fighting spam, or a media error.
- ProAm 11y agoNot really when their user base is over 1 billion.
- chronic40 11y ago1.5 billion apparently
- felixhandte 11y agoIn 2009 we had 1b sends/day, so not really: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/chat-reaches-1-billion-messages-sent-per-day/91351698919 https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/chat-rea...
- hammock 11y agoHe gained access to 500k accounts... so I'm roughly guessing that he sent a message to every friend people had on each one of those accounts.
- boomzilla 11y agoYeah, that bit of information is more interesting. Did he get the access illegally? Why was that not a crime, but sending the messages was? Something is off here.
- Sanddancer 11y agoHim getting access was the fraud part of the charges. The spamming was covered under the contempt part, because he was under court orders to not use facebook due to prior spamming.
- sydneyliu 11y agoFacebook's usually really good about fighting spammers and multiple accounts from what I've seen. Early community was facebook was filled with spammers but it's much harder to find spam accounts nowadays. Basically every account I encounter is real....I wonder what crazy thing he had to do to get 500k spam accounts
- brokentone 11y agoIt doesn't say they're spam accounts -- more likely good accounts taken over, which accounts for some of the fraud.
- SN76477 11y agoI made a nice bit of money spamming those early community pages. . . Ahh yes the good 'ole days.
- wpietri 11y agoThe technical term is not "made", but something more like "stole". If you put $1 in your pocket while wasting $10 (or, more likely, $100 or $1000) of other people's time, then you're not a productive citizen, you're a parasite.