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My New Spam: Twitter, Disqus & Vimeo

Submitted by Ryan Spoon on January 31, 2009 – 5:33 pmComments

I get plenty of email spam… but Gmail does an admirable job making sure most of it doesn’t hit my inbox.

My new annoyance is, for lack of better terminology, “web 2.0 spam”. My inbox is filled with junk from Twitter, Disqus, Vimeo and all of the other services that I use frequently… all getting increasingly worse (particularly over the last two weeks).. It’s brutally annoying because, unlike email, this spam is usually visible to more than just my eyes. Whereas email spam clogs *my* inbox – these new forms of spam affect my public arenas… sometimes for personal content (like my blog) and other times for company content (like InGameNow, Widgetbox, etc).

And as services like Twitter and Disqus continue to grow – the spammers get more sophisticated because the value of spamming increases. It’s no longer Viagra and Acai Berry ads – it’s silly link-bait being used clearly for SEO purposes. Unfortunately that too is problematic in ways that traditional spam isn’t… enough SEO spam can have negative affect on my sites as well.

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  • evelyntiffany
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  • Spam is not good at all
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  • Yea you should remove disqus if you think it makes to much spam.
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  • I really think that your website is always visited by spammers who usually can't leave useful comments.. its pretty annoying don't you think?
  • I think, with disqus we can minimize spam.
  • I hate spam too, protect our site carefully
  • Twitter is sure becoming a Phenomenon right? like everyone is talking about it everywhere and joining it. I knew about it for a while and have been on it for a while. I want a lot of followers, is there any way to like advertise from a site or somewhere? I want followers that are not spam n that crap. I want interesting people like me that are addicted to twittering who will actually follow me back.
  • multi same twits creates spam on our emails, this this makes me unfollow those stupid peoples, another is spam on my email was random messages that I got from forums that I joined.. specially those who are just advertising their products.. this things really piss me off.
  • Basically whenever I sign up for a new site, I go in and make sure all the email settings are disabled. When I first started with Facebook, I was going nuts with how many emails I'd get, for the simplest stuff like someone commenting on my status...
  • Spammers are being caught today.. You can also report it also on the disqus.
  • Pemilu2009
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  • I take a different view what can they teach me about marketing my site. It doesn't mean do what they are doing but learn from their approach and mindset. It helps me anyway.
  • I just can't find a use for Twitter :(
  • mattseo
    I hate spam and usless followers
  • What I don't like is when people follow just anyone for the prime purpose of generating hopeful followers themselves
  • me too! I hate them...
  • Are you talk about spam notifications of spammers being caught? If so you can update this by unchecking "Receive notifications for comments that are unapproved or marked as spam " here: http://disqus.com/account/notifications/

    If it is spam could you forward me the spam notifications and I will take care of it.

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    help@disqus.com
  • Definately annoying! But what can you do about it?
  • It's ineffective to complain about Disqus spam if you implement Disqus on your blog.
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