Comments on: Growing with Twitter http://brain-vibe.com/2009/10/18/growing-with-twitter/ marketing muses to stay engaged Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mgoetz http://brain-vibe.com/2009/10/18/growing-with-twitter/#comment-297 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:19:12 +0000 http://brain-vibe.com/?p=494#comment-297 Shel:
I wish there were things that could convince spammers that what they do is not worth it. The only issue is that they do get something out of it – people do buy in. Especially now with high unemployment and people losing their homes some think there are ways to make easy money. I’d thought of putting out the names of those that were in my follower list and decided against it. I’d rather not give them the fame. It feeds into their tactic. I also think that contacting them may not work either as I think they send but don’t watch what comes back to them. In the end, I don’t want the association and try to keep it out of my tweets and follower list. Sorry state – thus the rant.

I hope what you do works. I’m certainly with you in my disdain.

]]> By: Shel Horowitz - Ethical/Green Marketing Expert http://brain-vibe.com/2009/10/18/growing-with-twitter/#comment-296 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:59:41 +0000 http://brain-vibe.com/?p=494#comment-296 Right you are! I use TweetDeck’s block-and-report tool, but first, while they can still receive my tweets, I do two things:

1. I visit their profile to make sure they weren’t the victim of a hijack (several times, you see a pattern of great tweets supplanted at the top by junk)–if they have, I warn them to change logons and delete the junk.

2. If they’re a genuine spammer (can spammers EVER be genuine?), I send a tweet like “@idiot I block and report spammers. Bye!” – so others can proactively block them.

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