Comments on: Are Spammers Moving to Social Networks? http://gigaom.com/2008/05/15/are-spammers-moving-to-social-networks/ The Business of Technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:35:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Its too hot to do anything but blog http://gigaom.com/2008/05/15/are-spammers-moving-to-social-networks/#comment-878835 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Its too hot to do anything but blog Sun, 18 May 2008 01:49:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13432#comment-878835 [...] FWIW We’re constantly getting spammed - it occupies a huge amount of our mindshare and resourc.... [...] [...] FWIW We’re constantly getting spammed - it occupies a huge amount of our mindshare and resourc…. [...]

]]> By: Higher Education Internet Marketers Links of the Week May 16th, 2008 | .eduGuru http://gigaom.com/2008/05/15/are-spammers-moving-to-social-networks/#comment-878663 Higher Education Internet Marketers Links of the Week May 16th, 2008 | .eduGuru Fri, 16 May 2008 14:14:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13432#comment-878663 [...] Are Spammers Moving to Social Networks? - Spammers are finding virgin territory in emerging messaging tools, including SMS and social networks. Ferris Research projects that Americans will receive 1.5 billion unsolicited text messages in 2008, double the number sent in 2006. [...] [...] Are Spammers Moving to Social Networks? - Spammers are finding virgin territory in emerging messaging tools, including SMS and social networks. Ferris Research projects that Americans will receive 1.5 billion unsolicited text messages in 2008, double the number sent in 2006. [...]

]]> By: Aidan Henry http://gigaom.com/2008/05/15/are-spammers-moving-to-social-networks/#comment-878545 Aidan Henry Thu, 15 May 2008 20:49:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13432#comment-878545 Spammers are old school. Their systems and methods have been uncovered. The new swindlers are social media gamers. They're harder to detect and penalize. Their practice steps beyond the bounds of social media marketing into an illegitimate realm of manipulation and collaborative scheming. I posted about this in late April: http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2008/04/28/gaming-social-media/ Cheers, Aidan Spammers are old school. Their systems and methods have been uncovered. The new swindlers are social media gamers. They’re harder to detect and penalize. Their practice steps beyond the bounds of social media marketing into an illegitimate realm of manipulation and collaborative scheming.

I posted about this in late April: (link)

Cheers,
Aidan

]]> By: Davis Freeberg http://gigaom.com/2008/05/15/are-spammers-moving-to-social-networks/#comment-878522 Davis Freeberg Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13432#comment-878522 The ones that bother me are the Squidoo pages that people set up and then spam. Because Squidoo shares ad revenue, they have an incentive to turn a blind eye to this practice, but whenever I see a twitter spam or a bogus Digg entry, it feels like it always leads back to them. Ideally, they should figure out a way where people can report the spam, so that they can remove these bogus accounts, but at this point I bet that Squidoo is more interested in the traffic then good web etiquette. The ones that bother me are the Squidoo pages that people set up and then spam. Because Squidoo shares ad revenue, they have an incentive to turn a blind eye to this practice, but whenever I see a twitter spam or a bogus Digg entry, it feels like it always leads back to them. Ideally, they should figure out a way where people can report the spam, so that they can remove these bogus accounts, but at this point I bet that Squidoo is more interested in the traffic then good web etiquette.

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