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Twitter Suspends my Account

PaulMay 10, 2009

It seems someone got mad at Twitter or at least someone wasn’t to happy:

As you can see when I log into my account this pops up. I am sure my ratio is normal:

extremely imbalanced follower/following ratio

aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)

aggressive following (a large number of people are followed in a short amount of time)

account contains links pointing to phishing sites, malware, or other harmful material

links in updates disguise the real content of a link given in a misleading or deceptive way.

Now these are the ones that I would not due and am quite confused why Twitter has suspened. I also like how they have an outdate link to there suspended account section of explaintion on getting your account reviewed or finding out why it was suspended. The link they send you to when the RED Stop Sign Appears is:

http://twitterhelp.blogspot.com/2008/08/suspended-accounts

Which is not valid they need to add a .html to the end of the URL to fix the problem. I know I’m not the only one to have come accross that invalid link but that is beside the point. It isn’t my fault if people start following me because of my website content. Please tell Twitter to fix this problem.

I start talking about what is wrong with Twitter and they shut me down? That is the only explaination I can come up with. I hope they fix this or I won’t be staying there much longer, I’ll go to the Indentica Servers and use them instead!! See my other posts about Twitter and you can decide if they did this on purpose or not.

TweetTornado and What that means to Twitter

PaulMay 10, 2009

I had an interesting person follow me today and I want to talk about How Twitter Needs to fix this problem:

[intlink id=”3501″ type=”post”]In my previous post[/intlink], I talked about Twitter needing to fix spam problems and here’s why. It’s Called Tweet Tornado and you pay $100 for this program a Month. On the Page, they talk about downloading this software and using it:

[ad]Now as you can on there website this plainly states this is SPAM. I wouldn’t install this software or even use it because of the possibility of having a Virus, Trojan, or even Malware attached to the program. I can say now that what I’ve seen of this website is that Twitter needs to come up with a way to fix this problem. I must warn you that if you do start using this software, you might end up with not internet or even worse if Twitter decides to come after you for damages to bandwidth. This software violates Twitter TOS:

You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users

You must not modify, adapt or hack Twitter.com or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Twitter.com .

You must not create or submit unwanted email to any Twitter members (“Spam”)

As you can tell by using this software you are using a Bot that one probably is Spamming by means of either your current users or creating accounts and using the account to post a message with keywords. This will ultimately come down to Twitter to fix problem because this will create more bandwidth problems for Twitter and will start costing money for Twitter. Twitter users want this to be a free service but sooner or later if Twitter doesn’t do anything Twitter users will start paying for their mistake. Twitter will need to Modify it’s Terms of Service to Help prevent spam on the network because they have a Duty to it’s users to make this a safe place for teens and young children because some of these sites as you’ve seen on [intlink id=”3501″ type=”post”]my previous post[/intlink] are not safe for kids. Twitter needs to consider that there are Young people on their service Teens and Kids over the age of 13 unless Twitter wants to make it so you have to be an Adult to use there service. That could happen but I am sure this will not happen.

I also did not directly link to the website and I also made it so you can’t find the website easily but If twitter wants to know the website they can email me and I’ll share them the website, I have no problem tell them! I post this to show how Twitter needs to think about changing there TOS and also implement changes to ways to help prevent spam.

Come on Twitter add Tweet filters — Ways to prevent twitter spam!

PaulMay 10, 2009

So I am on twitter tonight and I find some common themes:

[intlink id=”3493″ type=”post”]Have you ever heard about paid surveys ? I’m making way over $4000 per month working part time .www.hothotjoboffers.com [Keyword][/intlink]

Visit www.nakedoncam.info for 100% FREE LIVE CAM GIRLS! #Lobster Jeremy Mayfield Wolverine #startrek Happy Mothers Day

[ad]As you can see this is starting to get bad. I don’t know why Twitter can’t fix this, by making filter rule that prevent new users from posting the same thing others have or even putting in some Captcha’s and Email verification. This would stop it really quickly but I am sure I would hear from people that these wouldn’t stop them from coming. Yes that is true but it would stop some to a lot of them from posting. They want people to come to there site and they are abusing the Twitter.

On any given day you can search for anything with twitter and come up with some valuable information. Now this seems to be more and more spam. There needs to be a way for twitter to stop this but I guess they dont’ want to ruin the experience for new users.

As a long time user of Twitter, I would like to keep using it but since Oprah came to twitter it seems [intlink id=”3344″ type=”post”]Oprah[/intlink] has brought some media attention to our little universe and that in turn has brought the spam people.

Twitter needs to get it’s act together and come up with a way to fix some of these types of spam before it becomes to hard to use twitter. This also causes load issues with bandwidth and other such problems when Twitter is abused you see the result. So I hope people retweet this post and tell people to look at this and then tell Twitter to Fix this problem. The more that tweets to fix this problem the more they will listen.

Hothotjoboffers equals Twiitter Spam

PaulMay 10, 2009

Saw this on the Twitscoop API and had to talk about it:

If you go to the site Hothotjoboffers.com you will be redirected to:

www.makemoneytakingsurveys.org

Now I know more about this then anyone. I see these types of scams where you can make money by doing survey’s but there are some common princples to consider. Although I have real doubts to this site because when you try to exist it displays:

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I always wonder why spam and other sites alike try to persuade you to stay and look. When that happens I am thinking to myself, “Yes I am sure and that little box really makes me mad”. I assume someone bot is making the post to twitter and I wish Twitter would create a rule for this. This would stop this type of spam from getting to us and others. Same Text coming from newly created accounts less than a hour with let’s give it 5 max should be prevented from posting until they are verified by either email or other such ways.

I don’t know if you can truely get paid for doing surveys but I know if I did want to I would look for sites that are free and not ones where you have to pay to find good surveys. This just sounds like a waste of money and time.

Microsoft to Release One Crictical update for Tuesday

PaulMay 9, 2009

Microsoft has release the information for May’s Patch Tuesday and it looks like there is one major update for Power point:

The Affected software is MS Office 2000, MS office Xp, MS Office 2003, Ms Office 2007, Power point viewer, and MS compatibility pack for Word, Excel, and Power point 2007.

[ad]What will be coming out for Tuesday is as Followers for Non-security Releated:

Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista (KB928439)

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB951847)

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB867460)

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – May 2009 (KB890830)/Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – May 2009 (KB890830) – Internet Explorer Version

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [May 2009] (KB905866)

Although some of this is usual like the Malicious software removal tool, and Windows Junke e-mail filter, we won’t know what else will be released until Tuesday. Some of the updates will be minor like the Powershell, I am guessing tis will help get ready for SP2, and the SP1 for the .NET framwork also looks to be getting ready for SP2. So I will keep you updated if i find out what else is released on Tuesday!