Comments on: #Twitter Sucks At Malware Protection (98hrs later)

By: jackie maxwell

jackie maxwell — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:27:00 +0000

twitter has a problem. i subscribed to check it out and it simply is too creepy- they send out mails to folks on my e-mail list, that i was “following” them.
this is wrong, creepy, and wrong. i am trying to unsubscribe but there is no way to do it. it is like i am being held captive.
i hope no one ever joins Twitter again. really, they should be sued. again. there are lots of comments online about this same problem. it is not just me. BEWARE OF TWITTER

so, be

By: supaswag

supaswag — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:35:46 +0000

Another victim of The Twitter Man. I just said this morning that I’d be more than happy to pay a reasonable amount each month to get a top customer service with Twitter. For some unexplained reason my supaswag account disappeared from the Twitter index/search half a year ago and now, 4 days ago they locked my account for ‘too many failed login attempts’. The automated message tells me to ‘chillax’. Very funny. I never spamed Twitter and I certainly don’t have accounts that constantly flood the stream with automated updates. Is it because most of my friends are SEO people and marketers? Is there a blacklist? Am I getting paranoid already? Or is this just a silly bug that will take months and months for them to fix? Whatever the reason, I am grounded, stranded, cut off & I don’t like it. Trust takes a long time to earn and can be lost in a second. #twitterfail

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:55:13 +0000

I think Twitter will be fine in the long run. As many have noted above, it’s just growing too fast for the developers to keep up with it! Especially now the hackers and malicious web users are circling like sharks. Having said that, it’s an excellent platform for promotion from SKILLED writers (I exclude the spammy linkbots) and corporate outreach – check @DubLiCorporate to see what I mean. It’ll be interesting to see how the platform develops in coming years, especially considering the lucrative possibilities of monetization for Twitter. The future’s an interesting place!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:41:21 +0000

If that is the kind of website you are promoting, please stay away from Twitter

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:32:38 +0000

I really dont get all the fuzz about Twitter, to be quite honest. Every single time I read about it it`s from someone that wanna make money with it. What about those of us that actually do not have as a goal to make money on every single web project we got running? Cuz I got several blogs in various topics, and have been thinking about using Twitter more.. But then, guess who comes along. That`s right, some kind of money maker guru wannabe, and all my hopes for Twitter are suddenly and brutally torn to pieces.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:02:19 +0000

Just don’t follow the bots and you don’t see them, other than search.

I must admit I feel some of the canned autotweets some people use every hour become irritating.

By: Free Microsoft Point

Free Microsoft Point — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:36:48 +0000

Twitter is dying. It seems like only the bots and money makers are using the site.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:48:59 +0000

I doubt it would matter that much

Having looked at what you are writing or syndicating from somewhere, I doubt the traffic is going to be very interested anyway.

You host on WordPress.com where you can’t do any reasonable marketing anyway, no method of proactive split testing, you can’t even use Google Analytics.

At least with short links on Twitter you can use your own tracking links, and there is nothing wrong with you using branded shortened links.

By: Capital west advisor

Capital west advisor — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:15:23 +0000

I feel twitter is the best social networking site. But i don’t like twitter converting the content in tiny links. especially link which we post will be converted to short links which are of less use for web marketing.
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By: Alex | SMM

Alex | SMM — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:11:24 +0000

I think the problem with Twitter is they’ve gone too far too fast and now they are overwhelmed. I am sure they are probably working to solve these issues, but it will take time.