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Twitter Spam

Getting Twitter Spam? Here’s how I deal with it

November 5, 2009
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This is the second part of a post series I star­ted a few days ago, deal­ing with Twit­ter spam.

How to avoid becom­ing a Twit­ter spam­mer [part one]
How to deal with Twit­ter spam [this article]

What got me think­ing about it was the recent spate of incom­ing DM tweets from trus­ted people I fol­low. I received another one […]

Tagged as: DM, OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer, the easy way

November 2, 2009
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiv­ing spam on Twit­ter from trus­ted people I fol­low.
It’s not that they’ve all been over­come by the need to mon­et­ize their Twit­ter accounts (there, I said mon­et­ize in a blog post, I’m doomed), rather, they’ve fallen vic­tim to diabolically-crafted account phish­ing schemes and their Twit­ter accounts are now […]

Tagged as: OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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