Comments on: Save the Fail Whale, Block a Twitter Spammer

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Thank you, that is very informative. So I am right to say that social networking is more of gathering a group of individuals with the same interests to form a community.

By: raj

raj — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:00:29 +0000

This is really good to know, thanks. My friends and I actually started a semi-joking ‘Save the Fail Whales’ site, mostly for a laugh and because we do like the artwork. I didn’t realize how much could be achieved by blocking fake followers. I’ll write up and entry and link back here.

Thanks!

Raj
http://www.savethefailwhales.org/

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By: Teeg

Teeg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:24:41 +0000

@Despil You’re right. Actually I should have differentiated my terms better, because what Scoble uses is a script that follows followers. I’ve used Jessy Stay’s script myself but finally gave it up because it was right around the time that spammers started joining twitter.

What I am referring to are people who start following 1000, 5000, even 101,000 strangers and then wait for people to start following them back.

I had just been letting these people sit in my follow lists, figuring if I didn’t do anything, eventually they’d go away. Instead, as I saw when I looked back yesterday, they’ve been adding even more people to follow!

By: despil

despil — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:17:59 +0000

Blocking people with auto-follow scripts can ’cause some trouble, not all of them are spammers. Like Robert Scoble (ok, I know, some people consider him a spammer ).
I do go on a case by case bases, which works as long as you don’t have a lot of new followers every day.
But if blocking people helps, I am all for it, with all the Julie1984 and such users.