Twitter spammers: Exploitation of kindness

In an effort to increase the number of service members who receive their messages, spammers are plotting this: automating the search for twitter users who have many followers and follow them. Users are informed of the new faithful following, kindly reciprocate the follow, as required by the rules courtesy of Twitter. Thus, the followers of spammer-increasing estimated that at least 10% of people do you meet doing well follow follow. The bill Osen Komura was erected as an experiment documenting the truth of speech. The experiment conducted by Stefan Tanase, Romanian security expert in Kasperksky Labs, launched in February 2008. Within just one month, followed Osen 41 798 users of Twitter and those 17% responded reciprocally to the transaction. Thus, Osen found with 7.847 followers with little tweets (even today, more than two years after it has just 33 tweets
Following the 'dare to know "the saying set the Enlightenment, the modern Kant ekant used an automated tool to gain new followers, products followers (and profit from it). Based on a tool-service called TwitterOrganizer (by subscription about 15 dollars a month for a year and a money back guarantee 30 days if the user does not stay happy!), The ekant try his luck in touiterochora: Auto Follow People's Friends: First, identify some of the twitter users with many followers (first and not the psiliastoun on Twitter to 50, then to 500) or at least those who are interested (target group). The system will automatically be followed by relatively few users, as Twitter will block. Then, the system automatically takes care to follow all the followers of the user set (while the user has 'told' that sleeps). At least 10% of those you follow, you will repay In two, say, days, those who do not respond reciprocally to follow (follow back), as defined by the rules of politeness in Twitter, then take TwitterOrganizer unfollow make them automatically.So, every day an increasing number of followers (but not the growth of their following, but very-much higher). The ekant has cast the net users in 6085 (following) and gained 6.020 followers (and of course, I am not among them). It is noteworthy that ekant has just 17 tweets! That such accounts tend to be useful, also the spam pays, say subscribe to TwitterOrganizer and do follow the ekant and throw our nets to thousands of followers by the day? Blacklists to make Block and Unfollow Meanwhile, the phenomenon has been noticed and so have developed services that provide solutions for the optimal management of our accounts on twitter. Like this, missing tools, such as the aforementioned TwitterOrganizer, and have created blacklists with spam accounts at Twitter. See for example Twerpscan. The honest way to attract followers on twitter is to refer in any way that you have in your profile, you would like to raise awareness of your site. Add your twitter (electronic and printed) card in your website, the blog, you buy advertising. The (hard) truth is that the accounts with the most followers on Twitter belong to famous people or companies or organizations. Do not expect that you follow in their thousands because they write often beautiful or even useful tweets. However, Twitter is a tool of mass communication and direct and if you really want to get you to settle for a few and good ...