Is Your Twitter Account Sending SPAM?
The other day I received a direct message (DM) from a local follower, who I trust because they are dedicated to developing a community consensus on Lakeland’s future. The message read “I make money online with google. I learned how here…”link” I clicked on the (SPAM) link; clearly, I was not thinking straight this should have put up a big red flag in my brain… I even responded to the DM as follows, “I’m always skeptical when it comes to ad like this – does it really work –be honest and how did you go about it”. What was I thinking?
Today, I received a message from my follower saying that their Twitter account has been compromised and to please follow the direction with the link. I followed the instruction from a good friend Chuck Welch and followed “8 Steps if Your Twitter Account is Sending Spam” to the tee.
If you got caught up with a SPAM direct message from a trusted follower, please take extra caution to prevent spammers from hacking into your account.
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Hello Petra...I haven't had touble with my Twitter account sending spam but boy I sure do get a lot. Every couple of days or so I have to stop and clean out the junk. Seems like there are a lot of spambots out there following accounts and trying to latch on. What amazes me is some of them have large followings. I know there are some 3rd party spam tools for Twitter...just haven't got to it yet. Thanks for the post.
Cheers,
jt