{"id":1039,"date":"2011-05-31T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:39:16","slug":"5-ways-to-reduce-twitter-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/5-ways-to-reduce-twitter-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Reduce Twitter Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on reducing the amount of twitter spam.<\/p>\n

To me Twitter Spam is any sort of @ reply or DM that links to a site that tries to hack you back, and it can do so more than you care for.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 ways that work for reducing twitter spam:<\/p>\n

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  1. The silent cannot be spammed. If you stay quiet for a few days the amount of folks who will spam you goes down.<\/li>\n
  2. Make your account private.<\/li>\n
  3. Prune your account of the spam-like and spam vectors. For me this means removing folks that follow more than have followers or act like bots (because they probably are). This also means using Echofon<\/a> on the iPhone. Echofon is helpful in that it shows the vector a spammer used to get to me. In this case I might get spammed an at reply every time a certain user “ats” me back. Echofon makes this very obvious.<\/li>\n
  4. Actively block spammers and report them as spam.<\/li>\n
  5. Avoid using terms that spammers like. You know the one’s I mean. I’d mention it here but it would ruin my blog’s ranking. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve been working on reducing the amount of twitter spam. To me Twitter Spam is any sort of @ reply or DM that links to a site that tries to hack you back, and it can do so more than you care for. Here are 5 ways that work for reducing twitter spam: The silent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,5],"tags":[355,30],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-techbiz","tag-spam","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}