Spamming Evolves – To Block Or Report On Twitter?

Almost every time I check the followers of my new Twitter account I find some unwanted ones:

Followers who have exactly same kind of tweets like

• “honesty is indeed the best policy”
• “Patience is a virtue :) Hard work always pays off!”
• “this twitter software is truly amazing. Gets me new followers on autopilot everyday, see it for yourself :) [URL]”

Followers who don’t have any

• tweets
• description of themselves
• link to their additional data

So far I have mostly blocked these followers, because the report option includes the word “spam” and these followers haven’t sent me direct messages, only followed. Reporting for spam has felt too harsh – maybe partly because I never report email spam, either.

But I begin to realize that spamming has evolved and how spamming may be different in Twitter than in email: already “Repeatedly posting duplicate updates”* may constitute spam.

It seems it’s time to become more strict: not only to block, but also report.

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Related links

* Twitter Help Center: How To Report Spam on Twitter?
Twitter Help Center: How To Block Users on Twitter?

@TiinaNiskanen , my new English Twitter account
@tiinanis , my before bilingual, now Finnish Twitter account

Discussions Disappeared From Company Facebook Page!

I’ve run a bilingual Facebook page “Metropolia Career Services – Metropolian rekrytointipalvelut” for our job seekers and employers since 1.9.2010.

The Wall:

On 15.6.2011 I noticed, that the Discussions section used for promoting job ads had disappeared completely.

The missing Discussions:

After some googling I learned that I wasn’t alone with my problem. I also discovered, that I could see the Discussion board and access the job ads, if I wasn’t logged in Facebook – usually it’s the other way round!

Dicussions board when not logged in Facebook:

I have three assisting admins on the page whom I asked if they had some idea about the current situation. So far two has answered, but thinking about Facebook’s recent processes with eg. group upgrades I’m more inclined to think the problem lies within Facebook itself, not with us.

I filed a bug report for Facebook, asked my readers do the same and posted a comment on Facebook Pages Discussions thread.

Any suggestions what to do next?

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Related posts & pages

2011-5-20 On second thought: Cannot Upgrade a Facebook Group – Why?
2009-10-28 Facebook page “Facebook Pages”: Discussions thread “All fan page posts on discussion board have disappeared”
Facebook page “Metropolia Career Services – Metropolian rekrytointipalvelut”
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences: Career Services