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> "When I unfollowed everyone all my spam just stopped. Dead. No more spam. Not since Monday. Twitter is actually quite enjoyable. Not a single DM spam. Not a s
by tjogin 17y ago
> "When I unfollowed everyone all my spam just stopped. Dead. No more spam. Not since Monday. Twitter is actually quite enjoyable. Not a single DM spam. Not a single piece of spam has come through the home page."
I don't think it's fair to call it "spam" when you have chosen to follow the accounts who are "spamming" you (it's certainly not unsolicited tweeting). It's not spam, he's just been sloppy in choosing which accounts to follow.
- cracki 17y agonope, he set his account so that whenever someone follows him, he follows them too. that's how he got so much spam. bots started following him.
- tjogin 17y agoWhether he chose to follow them automatically or not, he's subscribing to their updates. That's does not fit any definition of "unsolicited" I know of.
- Semiapies 17y agoYeah, that's a problem of the "That cactus is dangerously spiny!" "Well, then stop trying to tackle it!" variety.
- salvadors 17y agoI don't think it's their updates that are being classed as spam as much as the direct messages that they send. It's certainly arguable that if you follow someone you're subscribing to those too, but I think it's less clear-cut.
- tjogin 17y agoTrue, I wouldn't say he "subscribes" do their DMs. But, he has decidedly opted-in to them sending him DMs.
- jacquesm 17y agoAt least we now know what caused the ddos attack, massive unfollowing by people that disconnected from Scoble.