Category Archives: spam

Facebook Kills More Spammy Apps With New Policy Changes

Posted on March 24, 2010 by jessestay

A common technique used by developers to promote their apps very quickly on Facebook has been to tag all of a user’s friends in a photo.  I’ve complained about this before.  If you visit my Facebook Profile and look at … Continue reading →

Posted in application spam, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, photo tagging, spam, spamminess, Technology, wall spam | Leave a comment

Please Do Twitter a Favor and Join SocialToo

Posted on March 8, 2010 by jessestay

Today we announced on the SocialToo blog that we’ve enabled our phishing protection for all 60,000+ SocialToo users (and many, many more to come). This project means a lot to me, as it means the more people that use it, … Continue reading →

Posted in dms, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, malicious, Security, social, SocialToo.com, spam, Twitter | 4 Comments

Twitter, The New Micro-Spammer and the Need to Fix CAN-SPAM

Posted on February 2, 2010 by jessestay

Marketers seem to never learn.  Time and time again they have tried to sacrifice loyal relationships with customers in order to take the easy road in hopes to get the small percentage out of millions that might convert into one-time … Continue reading →

Posted in can spam, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, hummingbird, micro-spam, microblogging, social, spam, spammers, Technology, Twitter | 9 Comments

Facebook Photo Tagging Apps: Intelligent Design or Plain Old Spam?

Posted on September 14, 2009 by jessestay

The photo tagging apps in Facebook have taken over my stream!  Check out the screen shot to the right.  Out of the 12 highlights, only half are legitimate posts.  The other 6 are apps that have seemingly figured out how … Continue reading →

Posted in application spam, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, photo tagging, spam, Technology | 9 Comments

Taking a Stand on Twitter’s Auto-DM Policy #endautodm

Posted on August 2, 2009 by jessestay

I’ve long mentioned my annoyance with automatic DMs after follow and elsewhere. It’s one of the reasons I built SocialToo, and we’re doing things there to combat the process. Unfortunately it’s not perfect. In fact, even with the anti-spam measures … Continue reading →

Posted in auto-dm, endautodm, fun140, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, spam, Technology, tweetlater, Twitter | 20 Comments

Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves

Posted on July 5, 2009 by jessestay

Twitter seems to be on a roll lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the … Continue reading →

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Curing Spam on Twitter With Better Follow Limits

Posted on June 10, 2009 by jessestay

I posted this over on the Twitter developer mailing list to try and get a discussion going. I thought I’d post a copy here for my readers to discuss – maybe you have more ideas than I do. I want … Continue reading →

Posted in follow, following, gaming Twitter, Geeky, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, numbers, spam, Technology, Twitter | 20 Comments

Is Twitter Seeing a New Form of Spam Attack?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by jessestay

Please note this in no way is inferring @nycgrl88 is in any way behind these attacks – it is simply an attempt to figure out why these bots are targeting her. My friend Scott Lemon, who runs http://topfollowfriday.com pointed me … Continue reading →

Posted in bot, followfriday, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, nycgrl88, spam, Technology, Twitter, zhombie | 10 Comments

Making Auto-Follow a Little Easier by Removing the DMs

Posted on February 28, 2009 by jessestay

As of today on my service SocialToo, we’re taking a stand and removing the ability to auto-dm your followers. This service, as it grew, was getting out of hand, very impersonable, and people were just ignoring them. It was a … Continue reading →

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Could Pandora be Leaking User E-mail Addresses to 3rd Parties?

Posted on October 12, 2008 by jessestay

UPDATE: See the comments below. Pandora’s CTO responded with the following explanation – while I haven’t shared much, I can see it being a spyware issue of someone I’ve shared having spyware on their computer – he has a good … Continue reading →

Posted in http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, mondissimo, news21.tv, Security, Social Media, spam, Technology | 16 Comments