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Even worse are the ones that seem legit for a long time (like a month or more - I suspect regenerating other ppl's tweets, but I've never tested that) and then

by ErrantX 17y ago

Even worse are the ones that seem legit for a long time (like a month or more - I suspect regenerating other ppl's tweets, but I've never tested that) and then start to "spam" subtely. Bloody clever and I've clicked links w/o even slightly imagining they were spam. Im guessing it is down to Twitter being fairly quick to kill spammy spammers. At the end of the day now my steam moves so fast (with just a few hundred follows) that it's tough to keep up anyway :)

DanielBMarkham 17y ago
Maybe the answer is just to follow people you know? But that kind of defeats the point of Twitter, right? And if you've got so many people in your feed you can't track them anyway, what's the point again? I'm still missing something here.
- yan 17y ago
  For them to show up on your feed, you'd have to follow them. Them following you only does two things, as far as I understand: Add them to the list of those following you and bumps up your followers count.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  well I dont use it so hardcore as some do. If your a regular user with lots of follows then one of the desktop clients (I use Thwirl when I feel like it) turns it into something of a public IM application (which is pretty cool). Personally i just check in a couple of times a day and usually find something interesting. And I post my blog posts and anything I might find interesting on there in case other people are noticing :)
- greengirl512 17y ago
  If you have too many people in your feed to track, you need an app that sorts them for you so that you see tweets from the most important/interesting people in your stream first (not necessarily people you know). I don't know...I manage Twitter accounts for the blogs I update, but I don't use my personal account very much. Even with the business accounts, I'm horrible about checking for @ replies and usually respond several hours later-which kind of defeats the "real-time" purpose of Twitter, does't it? It seems like you have to be always on to really make it work for you, but there are many hours during the day where I need to be focused on what I'm doing and not on checking Twitter. But, you have one more new, non-spam follower anyway!
  - greengirl512 17y ago
    Well, you would if I could find you...Twitter can't find anyone named danielbmarkham.
    - DanielBMarkham 17y ago
      That's weird, copied directly from the page it's: danielbmarkham must be typo somewhere or something?
      - greengirl512 17y ago
        Too weird...here's what I'm getting: Name results for: danielbmarkham Search for a username, first or last name Did you mean daniel garnham ? We couldn't find anyone named danielbmarkham.
        DanielBMarkham 17y ago
        Using this? http://twitter.com/#search?q=danielbmarkham http://twitter.com/#search?q=danielbmarkham Maybe it's a database replication issue -- although I've been on for several days now.
        greengirl512 17y ago
        That worked...one more non-spam follower for you!
- sho 17y ago
  "what's the point again? I'm still missing something here." When you find that missing point, please let me know ..
  - tptacek 17y ago
    Troll. I wanted to beta test a cryptography pentesting class in Chicago and figured I'd want to fill 8 seats to make it worthwhile. I twittered "If 8 people tell me they're interested in a free crypto class in Chicago, I'll schedule it". I've now got 40+ people, more than 20% of whom are flying into Chicago for it. The whole process took me something like 5-10 minutes. If you have nothing to say and nothing you want to hear about, there is no point to being on Twitter. But spare the rest of us the snark. I did Usenet since 1994, IRC, IM, LinkedIn and we have a fairly solid blog, and none of those media could have done what Twitter just did for us.
    - DanielBMarkham 17y ago
      I'm the new guy, so I'm going to comment a lot in this thread. Apologies to the rest of HN. I'm genuinely interested at this from both a technology and a startup angle. Were these folks who were already following you? I mean, they already had to express interest in you and what you're doing, right? It's not like you were approaching complete strangers. I noticed I tweeted this weekend about how much fun it was to play keyboards at home with MIDI backup. I got a reply from somebody, even though that person was not following me. So is there some kind of broadcast for tweets that people get even if they aren't following? Search? RSS feed or something? How did that guy reply to a tweet if he wasn't following?
      - tptacek 17y ago
        Some of them had been following me. Some of them found out because a couple people RT'd the message I sent out. Maybe --- I doubt it --- someone found it on Search.

by ErrantX 17y ago

DanielBMarkham 17y ago

Maybe the answer is just to follow people you know? But that kind of defeats the point of Twitter, right? And if you've got so many people in your feed you can't track them anyway, what's the point again? I'm still missing something here.

yan 17y ago
For them to show up on your feed, you'd have to follow them. Them following you only does two things, as far as I understand: Add them to the list of those following you and bumps up your followers count.
ErrantX 17y ago
well I dont use it so hardcore as some do. If your a regular user with lots of follows then one of the desktop clients (I use Thwirl when I feel like it) turns it into something of a public IM application (which is pretty cool). Personally i just check in a couple of times a day and usually find something interesting. And I post my blog posts and anything I might find interesting on there in case other people are noticing :)
greengirl512 17y ago
If you have too many people in your feed to track, you need an app that sorts them for you so that you see tweets from the most important/interesting people in your stream first (not necessarily people you know). I don't know...I manage Twitter accounts for the blogs I update, but I don't use my personal account very much. Even with the business accounts, I'm horrible about checking for @ replies and usually respond several hours later-which kind of defeats the "real-time" purpose of Twitter, does't it? It seems like you have to be always on to really make it work for you, but there are many hours during the day where I need to be focused on what I'm doing and not on checking Twitter. But, you have one more new, non-spam follower anyway!
- greengirl512 17y ago
  Well, you would if I could find you...Twitter can't find anyone named danielbmarkham.
  - DanielBMarkham 17y ago
    That's weird, copied directly from the page it's: danielbmarkham must be typo somewhere or something?
    - greengirl512 17y ago
      Too weird...here's what I'm getting: Name results for: danielbmarkham Search for a username, first or last name Did you mean daniel garnham ? We couldn't find anyone named danielbmarkham.
      - DanielBMarkham 17y ago
        Using this? http://twitter.com/#search?q=danielbmarkham http://twitter.com/#search?q=danielbmarkham Maybe it's a database replication issue -- although I've been on for several days now.
        greengirl512 17y ago
        That worked...one more non-spam follower for you!
sho 17y ago
"what's the point again? I'm still missing something here." When you find that missing point, please let me know ..
- tptacek 17y ago
  Troll. I wanted to beta test a cryptography pentesting class in Chicago and figured I'd want to fill 8 seats to make it worthwhile. I twittered "If 8 people tell me they're interested in a free crypto class in Chicago, I'll schedule it". I've now got 40+ people, more than 20% of whom are flying into Chicago for it. The whole process took me something like 5-10 minutes. If you have nothing to say and nothing you want to hear about, there is no point to being on Twitter. But spare the rest of us the snark. I did Usenet since 1994, IRC, IM, LinkedIn and we have a fairly solid blog, and none of those media could have done what Twitter just did for us.
  - DanielBMarkham 17y ago
    I'm the new guy, so I'm going to comment a lot in this thread. Apologies to the rest of HN. I'm genuinely interested at this from both a technology and a startup angle. Were these folks who were already following you? I mean, they already had to express interest in you and what you're doing, right? It's not like you were approaching complete strangers. I noticed I tweeted this weekend about how much fun it was to play keyboards at home with MIDI backup. I got a reply from somebody, even though that person was not following me. So is there some kind of broadcast for tweets that people get even if they aren't following? Search? RSS feed or something? How did that guy reply to a tweet if he wasn't following?
    - tptacek 17y ago
      Some of them had been following me. Some of them found out because a couple people RT'd the message I sent out. Maybe --- I doubt it --- someone found it on Search.