DISQUS

Social Networking Rehab: Beware Of Fake Twitter Addicts!

  • tojosan · 7 months ago
    Great list. #10 is my most nit picking one.
    Good share. Reblogged a quote.

    Another check - they follow/unfollow/follow/unfollow in an attempt to get you to follow them back.
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Thanks Todd! Yes the follow/unfollow game is annoying!
  • TheDudeDean · 7 months ago
    They tend not to understand "More Cowbell"
  • lightningjim · 7 months ago
    I have 2. If you get followers not soon after you tweet something, example "social media", odds are they are autofollowing spambots.

    Also they end up here: http://twitspam.org/
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Good point! The only thing worse than spam is spambots! ;-)
  • Asha McGarrell · 7 months ago
    I hate fake tweeple! I don't need 1000 followers or more money and I don't want porn! This is a great list of how to identify them.
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Thanks Asha, down with fake Tweeple!
  • Randy · 7 months ago
    Thanks for posting this. I just crossed the line of being annoyed with these fake followers.
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Thanks Randy! Better to laugh than be annoyed. ;-)
  • pastachick · 7 months ago
    I found folks who had an interesting-sounding link about something supposedly funny; when clicking on, it was just a spam scam! All of their links were like that. Also got some porno girls following me-- their links turned out to be very hard-core. I blocked them immediately. I also beware those followers w/ almost no updates and oodles of followers. I just un-followed several folks last night...
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Thanks! That is one of the flaws of URL shorteners - you can't guess where it's going. If you use FireFox, try the Power Twitter plugin. It shows you the full link location before you click on it.
  • AngelaW · 7 months ago
    Their bio contains a claim about being a social media expert.
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Experts, Gurus and Mavens, oh my!
  • mulch · 7 months ago
    #9 bums me out. just happened to me. 1,000 free ringtones. I just unfollow&block
  • sass · 7 months ago
    Yep, those auto DM's are deadly... Thanks for your comment!
  • Aaron · 7 months ago
    Question for you all then. Using Twitter for a corporate account @maestroFM, I auto-DM followers with a personal introduction, basically just telling them my name and what I Twitter about for the company, www.maestro.fm. Should I remove this completely because it ticks more people off then it does give them a friendly hello?