Faster, better…

I was not pleased to suddenly find my Twitter account being followed by yet another SEO expert, a free laptop scheme, a mortgage company masquerading as a happy teenager. Then there was the happiness guru, the sales advice guru. Blecch. The social media marketer is the brown colored goo in pond scum. The only way to get rid of it is to clean the pond and in the case of Twitter maintaining my account so that sleaze is blocked the moment it floats in.

Twitter has real-time usefulness. There are people that I respect, admire, and enjoy reading about or listening to. Following them on Twitter keeps me up to date. TweetDeck lives on one monitor while I work in another. I’m up to date with Drudge and FoxNews, getting the latest WordPress tip from Lorelle, getting updates from my sisters, and monitoring emergency providers, and news of the Coast guard through various feeds. What I do not and never expected to do with Twitter was accept it as a method of being introduced to mortgage rates, free laptop deals, MLM, consultants of various types fishing for business, or an SEO service from a company I would never recognize.

Twitter fulfills a need for specific information and a need to stay in touch real-time with family, people, companies, writers, political champions, news companies, and emergency service providers. Sales and marketing social media spammers are intruding in that space.

Before I have an unmanageable account I look at my list of followers. I block people whose personal URL turns out to be a sleazy marketing or sales website. The tweets of these folks are almost all universally contrived. So many of these tweets are in very poor English suggesting to me that the source is an off-shore company specializing in social-media spam. We may never know the real source.

Twitter allows you to report spammers via direct message to user SPAM. When I block a spammer I also report them. Other Twitter users should do the same. Doing this sooner rather than later will help Twitter and other Twitter users. I’m also reading a search on the word SPAM just to see what people are talking about and /or how they are dealing with spam.

Don’t let a spammer follow you on Twitter. Block them.

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