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Hey Twitter, you wanna fix this crap?
Look, Twitter, I know you're busy taking care of things like possible revenue streams and performance glitches, but do you think we could maybe take some time and do something about all the malicious link spam crudding up the joint?
When the site redesign was launched a while back, the inclusion of the public stream and trending topics seemed like a good way to show potential Twitter initiates what the service is all about. And that's exactly what it does, though maybe not in quite the way I'd like it to.
See, every day I get people asking me what Twitter is and what you can do on the site. Based on what I see in the public stream, there's every chance that you'll get hijacked, infected, or otherwise violated via your browser -- right on the landing page at twitter.com!
Twitter is simply too big to keep allowing this kind of stuff to go on unabated. So come on, crew... How's about putting a stop to some of the scambots? Hey, you might even free up some resources and chase away a few whales in the process...
When the site redesign was launched a while back, the inclusion of the public stream and trending topics seemed like a good way to show potential Twitter initiates what the service is all about. And that's exactly what it does, though maybe not in quite the way I'd like it to.
See, every day I get people asking me what Twitter is and what you can do on the site. Based on what I see in the public stream, there's every chance that you'll get hijacked, infected, or otherwise violated via your browser -- right on the landing page at twitter.com!
Twitter is simply too big to keep allowing this kind of stuff to go on unabated. So come on, crew... How's about putting a stop to some of the scambots? Hey, you might even free up some resources and chase away a few whales in the process...
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Subscribe to commentsEatmoldJun 13th 2010 3:10AM
This is one of the reasons I deactivated my Twitter account, so much spam. Every day I'd have follow requests from clearly computer generated people ... Hey Twitter, do you think anyone is called Xg5F46hll88?
@davey_ladJun 13th 2010 6:30AM
I find twitter pretty quick to suspend dodgy accounts. I've received plenty emails telling me "someone" is now following me.. only to find the acccount already suspended when i go to check it out.
As far as the public timeline is concerned... that's easy - Just don't look at it. It's mainly full of inane crap anyway - regardless of spam. Best just stick to your own personal list of inane crap... on a client... that has inane crap filtering support
aidriiyanJun 13th 2010 8:32AM
Just dont click the link...
JamesJun 13th 2010 10:53AM
Unfortunately, Gmail, Hotmail, YahooMail and other free mail accounts have made this sort of crap as easy as it is...