Twam, Spam, thank you Mam

The button with an emblem of an antispam on the keyboard.Twitter is hot at the moment and is taking on a  profile and importance that is up there with Facebook, MySpace etc al.  So, it comes as no surprise at all, that the spammers have looked into how they can exploit it. We have grown used to, or is that weary of, email spam. The game then moved onto blogs and the fight against comment spam. Then it was our mobile ‘phones and the rise of SMS based spam. So, there is no surprise that spam has now made its way to micro-blogging, with the target being  Twitter. We now have to mark the arrival of ‘Twam’ and ‘Twammers’. Rich Stennion published an enlightening blog post describing his research into Twitter spam.

Now, the good news is that unlike email, that is open in nature, micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, are closed. This means you can protect your updates and allows you to screen who will receive your updates. All you need do, is ensure that  in the ‘settings’ and ‘account’ tabs, that you check the ‘protect my updates’ box.

January 28, 2009 | Filed Under Security, Spam 

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