Facebook Kills More Spammy Apps With New Policy Changes
A common technique used by developers to promote their apps very quickly on Facebook has been to tag all of a user’s friends in a photo. I’ve complained about this before. If you visit my Facebook Profile and look at the “photos of Jesse” section you’ll notice a few of these. They’re usually a single […]
Read more...Please Do Twitter a Favor and Join SocialToo
Today we announced on the SocialToo blog that we’ve enabled our phishing protection for all 60,000+ SocialToo users (and many, many more to come). This project means a lot to me, as it means the more people that use it, the fewer phishing DMs will be received, links won’t be clicked, passwords won’t be shared, […]
Read more...Twitter, The New Micro-Spammer and the Need to Fix CAN-SPAM
Marketers seem to never learn. Time and time again they have tried to sacrifice loyal relationships with customers in order to take the easy road in hopes to get the small percentage out of millions that might convert into one-time sales. Affiliate marketing is ripe with these people hoping to “get rich quick”, without regard […]
Read more...Facebook Photo Tagging Apps: Intelligent Design or Plain Old Spam?
The photo tagging apps in Facebook have taken over my stream! Check out the screen shot to the right. Out of the 12 highlights, only half are legitimate posts. The other 6 are apps that have seemingly figured out how to abuse the system and take over my highlights section (either intended or not), giving […]
Read more...Taking a Stand on Twitter’s Auto-DM Policy #endautodm
I’ve long mentioned my annoyance with automatic DMs after follow and elsewhere. It’s one of the reasons I built SocialToo, and we’re doing things there to combat the process. Unfortunately it’s not perfect. In fact, even with the anti-spam measures SocialToo has in place, it’s getting to the point that most of the DMs I […]
Read more...Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves
Twitter seems to be on a roll lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the action, semi-real-time here. I just received a tip from a good friend, a very strong […]
Read more...Curing Spam on Twitter With Better Follow Limits
I posted this over on the Twitter developer mailing list to try and get a discussion going. I thought I’d post a copy here for my readers to discuss – maybe you have more ideas than I do. I want to make it clear that I do not condone what some users of SocialToo are […]
Read more...Is Twitter Seeing a New Form of Spam Attack?
Please note this in no way is inferring @nycgrl88 is in any way behind these attacks – it is simply an attempt to figure out why these bots are targeting her. My friend Scott Lemon, who runs http://topfollowfriday.com pointed me to this. It would appear that someone or something has hacked the Twitter sign up […]
Read more...Making Auto-Follow a Little Easier by Removing the DMs
As of today on my service SocialToo, we’re taking a stand and removing the ability to auto-dm your followers. This service, as it grew, was getting out of hand, very impersonable, and people were just ignoring them. It was a tough decision due to the number of users using the service, but I think making […]
Read more...Could Pandora be Leaking User E-mail Addresses to 3rd Parties?
UPDATE: See the comments below. Pandora’s CTO responded with the following explanation – while I haven’t shared much, I can see it being a spyware issue of someone I’ve shared having spyware on their computer – he has a good point. “Hi there, I’m the CTO over at Pandora. Saw a link to this post […]
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