This week TwitterTwitter announced changes to its Terms of Service spelling out that you own your Tweets, and that Twitter can place ads next to your content. What’s more, Twitter wants to crack down on spammers, bots and other bad behavior.
The refreshed Twitter Rules that are a part of the new Terms of Service spell out a number of different reasons why you may find your Twitter account terminated. Everything from inappropriate content and squatting to selling usernames could be cause for you to get the boot.
Upon closer look we noticed that Twitter is closing the curtain on at least 10 types of Twitter users we see regularly attempt to game the service. Here are the 10 people we won’t be hearing from anymore:
# 1. The Impersonator # 2. The Bot # 3. The Naked Chick # 4. The Serial Abuser # 5. The Squatter # 6. The Slimy Salesman # 7. The Hashtag Spammer # 8. The Plagiarizer # 9. The Über Oversharer or BullyBully reviews # 10. The Faker Read full post at mashable.com
Many of you have likely read about the recent study that revealed that 40% of tweets are “pointless babble.” OK, there may be a place for such babble, but 40% is pretty high. It begets the question, “What then makes a quality tweet?” The answer to this, in fact, may determine the long-term success of TwitterTwitter. As a completely user-generated content website, the quality of its content is, well, up to us users. Sure, Twitter management can add or take away features and keep the site running, but whether a new user signs on to see pointless babble or quality content is solely and completely up to us! Below are my four categories in which most high quality tweets I read fall under. # 1. Informative - Helps us learn. . . # 2. Humorous - Makes us smile… # 3. Personal - Tells us something about the person… # 4. Inspiring - Helps us increase quality of our lives…
Read on at mashable.com
With Twitter being such a hot trend right now, research firms have been anxious to study how people are using the social platform, and analyze trends in aggregate view. One such company, data analytics provider, Pear Analytics, set out to study the contents of our tweets to determine if, in fact, we’re all just sharing mindless babble, or if there was something more intellectual going on. Their findings aren’t all that favorable to those of us with lofty views of TwitterTwitter, because as it turns out, 40.55% of tweets are pointless babble… Read on at mashable.com
One of the most popular activities on the microblogging service TwitterTwitter is sharing links. However, this activity is also one of the most dangerous, too. Ever since Twitter gained in popularity, hackers and spammers have been using the service to direct traffic to their unsavory web sites. For the end user, clicking on those bad links could result in, at best, an annoyance as they’re directed to some spammy web site or, at worst, a full-on malware attack on their PC. Today, it appears that Twitter is starting to do something about the problem. According to security firm f-secure, Twitter is now blocking malicious URLs from being posted to their service… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
PayPal and eBay spam has gotten to the point that I’m not really sure how the actual companies send any legitimate emails anymore. I’ll pretty much automatically delete anything that purports to come from them, unless I’m expecting a payment from someone via PayPal. Read on at Mashable…
We’ve highlighted the problem of malicious links and spam permeating TwitterTwitter trends several times before, but the problem is getting worse, fast. If Twitter doesn’t fix it soon, Twitter Trends will simply become a huge pile of irrelevant content, spam and links that lead to viruses and spyware. Details…
Mollom, a spam prevention tool that competes with Automattic’s Akismet, has blocked a stunning 100,000,000 spam messages from appearing on websites, social networks and blogs since the product was introduced about 14 months ago. Details…
This week TwitterTwitter
announced changes to its Terms of Service spelling out that you own your Tweets, and that Twitter can place ads next to your content. What’s more, Twitter wants to crack down on spammers, bots and other bad behavior.
# 10. The Faker
Many of you have likely read about the recent study that revealed that 40% of tweets are “pointless babble.” OK, there may be a place for such babble, but 40% is pretty high. It begets the question, “What then makes a quality tweet?” The answer to this, in fact, may determine the long-term success of 
