My last post about how to make money with Twitter raised a few questions about Twitters future thanks to automatic following systems. Some of you pointed out, with all right, that Twitter will lose some of its quality because of spam, resulting in Twitters death.
I think it’s important to point out that I don’t encourage spam and therefore you should see my last post as educational information instead of an advice.
Why spam don’t work on Twitter
There’s a reason why spam never will kill Twitter and that’s because you can’t spam people without first getting them to approve you.
Automatic following systems do work because people auto follow all their followers. As soon as you stop doing this and also remove notifications when someone decides to follow you, you will never be bothered about it.
Unfortunately we all love stats and with several thousands of auto followers, almost all stats about followers will become useless.
Twitter is working constantly to defeat spam
The team behind Twitter is working every day with new methods to defeat spam and make Twitter a better site.
I think Twitter could lower the amount of auto followers drastically if they had a limit for how many users you can follow each day. You will never get the time to follow over 1000 people and therefore I would like this limit to be around 100 users each day. Sure it may take 2-3 days before you are following everyone you want to follow with a brand new account, but do we have such a rush?
Will spam be the death of Twitter?
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There are many applications came which can do auto tweets on your a/c to improve the business.
And also some tools auto follow the people and if that guy didn’t followed you with in some specified time, then it will do unfollow for that a/c..
Is this not spamming the twitter? Twitter not taking any action towards those applications/sites??
My DM box is over 500+ of nothing but spam, therefore, I don’t ever check that at all.
as far as autofollows go, i think it’s pretty convenient to have that as an option, i feel as though if they’ve taken the time to follow you then why not follow them back? (unless it’s spam following, which i’m seeing a lot of lately).
Personally I prefer the other way around. I’m not to found of autofollowing, but I like to see who are adding me. As late as today Twitter decided to ban one of my friends, even though she is one hundred percent legitimate.
I agree with Pheak. I have only 250ish followers, but an over 300 DM — 90% of which is SPAM.