Headwhack of the Week: Spotting Twitter spammers
Whenever something becomes popular on the Internet, the
spammers are soon to follow and Twitter is no exception. Twitter spammers count on users that auto
follow anyone that follows them (we don't recommend this practice for many
reasons, including this one) so their spam or sometimes malware laced links
will be read and clicked on by unsuspecting Twitter users.
These rogue users are easy to spot: They typically use
pictures of attractive young ladies, they are following a large number of
people, but have very few followers and all their tweets are about the same
topic and generally links to the same spam site. When you see these followers, click on the
'block' option so you don't have to ever be tricked by them (and don't auto
follow!)
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