Block a Twitter Spammer, Save a Fail Whale
Have you ever gotten followed by a vixen like stella102?
or maybe barbie071?
Well, I have.
At first, I was flattered that these hot twins would both take an interest in a Fail Whale activist such as myself. Just kidding, I knew they were just bots all along — they’re a special kind of bot called FemBots and they’re really bad for Twitter and for the the Fail Whale too. So I blocked them — as you can see from the above.
They suck up 10 or 20 times the typical Twitter account and this *forces* the Fail Whale to come out and play. But the Fail Whale does not like to be forced to play, breach, toe-touch, or whatever. I mean, do you? The Fail Whale only likes to come out only because real people are tweeting.
So if you respect the dignity of the Fail Whale…
- Block Twitter spammers!
- Submit spammer’s names to support@twitter.com.
- Submit spammer’s names to this form http://twitter.com/help/
- And spread the word!