I am one of those Twitter users that loves to follow those who follow me, so every weekend, I go through my list of followers and click the new Twitter follow button.
So it was to my surprise that I saw this list of people who had recently started following me.
Can you spot the spammers? Note: It’s not that hard. ๐
I am not sure if spammers are starting to get lazy or have lost all creative thought, but it is easy to pick out who I will not be following.
Here is what I noticed:
- They are all head shots of blonde females
- Most of them are “Child of God”, “Life coach”, “Thinker of vintage things”, and “Speaker”
- They JUST HAPPENED to follow me within the same thirty minutes.
- Many of their tweets are exactly the same.
While I hold spammers at the bottom of my list of Internet users, just above vicious hackers, I have to say that they really are slacking …
Samuel Sutter says
You are a better tweeter than i am, I tend to get spammers with less clothes, saying less christianish stuff. lol
Jeremy Smith says
That happens I guess. :p
Chase says
Wow, a little creativity goes a long ways. It can’t be that hard to come up with some better variations on that bio line.
Jeremy Smith says
You would think so, but apparently not…
Agile Scout says
tell us man, why do they do it? what’s the points of spamming jesus stuff?
Daniel Berman says
A click is a click. If they can get you to click, your just another market segment.
Jeremy Smith says
Very true. Unfortunately that they have to con people with their faith…
Jeremy Smith says
Don’t know why… just know that they do not do their job well…
Charles Specht says
That’s hilarious!
Jeremy Smith says
I wonder if they know that it is this obvious to spot?
Mark says
I’m averaging 2/3 spammers a week but they are not as subtle as yours. The ones who follow me always tend to have eastern european names and their descriptions usually include details of their sexual desires.
This is not helpful when some of our Youth group are starting to ask about twitter.
Jeremy Smith says
Yeah, that could be an issue…
James Cooper says
It’s amazing the number of eastern european ‘ladies’ that follow the account for my church (and then I report them…)
Jeremy Smith says
I don’t waste the time reporting because it is SO easy to get around these rules…
Rachel Blom says
I guess it helps that I’m a woman because I only get the shopping- and spa-type kid of spammers ๐ Haven’t had any good looking blondes yet who are apparently great thinkers, not any of the eastern European variety…something to be grateful for!
Jeremy Smith says
Those are nice spammers to have. ๐
Brian Jones says
I just went through my Twitter account and noticed a whole batch of lifecoaching speakers. Each had 3-6 tweets. Realized it was all spam so I googled it to see if anyone else had this happen (or if I’m just a magnet for sexy blond life coach speakers). As it turns out, much to my disappointment, I am not as alluring to massive crowds of blonds seeking to make a living improving other peoples lives at rhe same time they’re following my blog. Is it my bald spot???
Anyway the spammers used the SAME names on my account as yours.
Im wondering if they use those fake profiles to gather twitter users by marketing segments (ie Christians, church leaders, etc).
That’s actually scary if it’s true.
Jeremy Smith says
I have no doubt that they are able to tag profiles, tweets, and descriptions and offer the “best” spam possible.