10 People You Won’t See On Twitter Anymore

Posted on 16 September 2009, at 10:30 am, by Michael Anderson

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Has anyone read the recently updated Twitter Terms of Service? Our own Thomas R. Hall has, and points you to compare the differences between the previous and current versions. Personally I think it is pretty cool that they have enough transparency to let you compare so easily. Early this year Twitter gained more popular notice due to Oprah and the CNN / Ashton Kutcher race for 1 million followers. After that, the already popular practice of pretending to be a celebrity exploded, and in response Twitter started ‘verified’ accounts.

This week at Mashable.com there is an article that looks specifically at the 10 types of Twitter users that the service is trying to actively eliminate. Here is a bit on what they call the ‘HashTag Spammer”

Due to the popularity of trending topics, opportunistic Twitterers have discovered that they can potentially reach more eyeballs if they append a trending hashtag to their tweet. The activity is known as hashtag spam, and it’s unfortunately pretty commonplace and often inappropriate, just look at Habitat’s spam tactics as an example.

Thankfully, for those of you who “post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #,” or “post multiple unrelated updates to a trending or popular topic,” your days may be numbered.

Check out the rest at Mashable.com!