Comments on: Twitter Alert!: Stay Away from Twitter Retweet Spam Bot

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:39:23 +0000

I think I retweet one time, but it was for a site that I trusted, other than that I guess I’m a “responsible” tweeter reader. Very good post as this needed to remind people about this.

By: Manveer Singh

Manveer Singh — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:12:43 +0000

Thanks Harsh For The Information, it will help me alot

By: Haresh Patel

Haresh Patel — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:19:49 +0000

Yes Robert, allowing the use of bots makes Twitter less of a social platform, I believe.

By: @udeme

@udeme — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:31:29 +0000

Its a little odd that people retweet without checking the link. I’ve never done that, but not because I’m some stickler for being thorough or that I’m considering my tweet cred..

No, its just that I just wouldn’t pass a link along simply because @soandso said so.. Its my stream so it has to have links of value, links that I think are interesting, informative, funny or whatever.. To do that, obviously, I have to check the link..

Not so much for verification, but more that I genuinely have to value the content of the link before I retweet.

Imagine the scale at which a scammy “Help Haiti” link could spread and the havoc it would cause

By: Robert Latchford

Robert Latchford — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:28:11 +0000

As Haresh says – always open the link first before retweeting.
I still think bots should be banned from Twitter.

The DM function should be used or scrapped completely.
The amount of people that say they don’t check their DM’s is staggering.

So Twitter should make a decision , stop the automatic DM’s or drop the DM function completely.

By: Haresh

Haresh — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:24:26 +0000

I never retweet without opening the link first. It’s obviously not wise to retweet before opening it.

I still didn’t understand the article fully

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:24:12 +0000

Good reminder to everyone. Best not look ike a fool and loose credibility, or worse, spread a virus or other such web destructery, and click the link before hand.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:18:36 +0000

Tweeting ads will not do any harm.. until unless you spamming by mentioning people or by DM. Specially when people start reporting you as spam.