Now I’ve really had it!

I’ll keep this one short and sweet. I get a lot of Twitter direct message spam. I overlook some of it, because it’s unintentional. I don’t think all Twitter users a) realize they send direct messages to those following them with Mafia wars requests and b) can tell how utterly annoying it is when it comes a few times a day from different people. But I draw the line at so called online professionals doing the very same. Stop! It’s annoying.

Yes, if you have a twitter account that you use casually to fool around with friends, by all means, play all the Mafia Wars you want. But if it’s a business account and you are trying to show how much of an expert you are, you should know better! No, you can’t get away with it as easily! You’re on probation! I follow people in my line of business because I admire them. We can brainstorm, discuss our ideas, share news. But I can’t look up to spammers or waste my Twitter time on them :)

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  • Karen Swim

    Alina, I agree. Yesterday someone else remarked that they had received a Mafia DM from the President of a PR firm. I don’t play the game but am told that there is a DM opt out that many may be missing. I would ask the guy about it, it’s possible his account was hacked and he doesn’t know. At least you’ll know if he’s really clueless or a victim of foul play.
    .-= Karen Swim´s last blog ..Tick Tock It’s Friday =-.

  • Alina Popescu

    Karen, I know for most of people spamming the explanation is not knowing. But if you’re on twitter you cannot miss all the tweets about how annoying it is! And you might stop to check it. I know accounts are really easy to hacked into. Heck, someone used one of my yahoo accounts to send spam to all my contacts. But this has been going on for weeks, I’m sure you can’t really miss it. And if you do, a harsher warning should make you finally realize what’s going on :)

  • Hanne

    This spammers are really hard to avoid because they earn money for spamming a message or whatever. I only wish that Twitter should do something about it to filter them out of our sight. For now I am just choosing wisely to which Twitter message I should follow to avoid some web disturbances.

  • Alina Popescu

    Hanne, some do earn money. But I assure you they don’t from tweeting about mafia wars. That’s why it seems so silly to me: no purpose and no result other than annoying everybody.

  • t-shirt-printer

    I am at the point now where I have that much daily spam that I could well be missing something
    worth reading amongst them but don’t have the time to filter through them to find out !

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