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Social Media

Twitter Search and Reply Spam

Twitter has gone mainstream and become a worldwide phenomenon after Oprah started tweeting, followed by many celebrities. Many of the early adopters of Twitter are not very happy about the exponential increase in newly registered accounts.

Why are the early adopters, such as myself, get annoyed about increasing number of new users? The answer is simple; Twitter spam is increasing with a tremendous speed as well.

How many contacts (friends & biz contacts) do you follow in real life?

You can keep in touch with a limited number of people in real life. Depending on the person, it can be 10, 50, 100, maybe 500. It’s already a huge problem trying to follow the tweets of hundreds/thousands of people you follow on Twitter. But twitter spam I’m talking about is not the spam you receive from your followers, or from people you follow.
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Web 2.0 has been bringing new innovations to life every day. Twitter has become so popular, many people stopped blogging, and started tweeting.

The new hot Web 2.0 property is Friend Feed. You can also add your Twitter account to your FriendFeed as well as many other web 2.0 services. It’s like your centralized web 2.0 channel, and it’s IN nowadays.

Some Web 2.0 startups still don’t get the concept. You don’t need an extremely complicated service nor so much user interaction to be able to become successful and create some buzz in the industry.
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