Cloned Twitter Accounts: The New Twitter Spam, Tweeting Duplicate Content
I guess the initial wave of Twitter spammers probably duplicated their content from one account to the next as they spammed and then their accounts were banned. Taking a page from those early Twitter spam innovators, the MLM crowd appears to have picked up where the spammers left off while also adding a few new tricks of their own. Apparently one of my previous Tweets had a keyword sweet enough in it for the Twitter search and follow autobots to follow my account. It was probably the #140Conf hashtag. This morning I received two new Twitter followers one from a man, the other from a woman one right after another. Nothing unusal there. Since I don’t auto-follow followers, I went to investigate each Twitter account to see what I could find. What I found was two Twitter accounts with legitimate names and bios yet both had the same background and Tweet history. Exhibit #1 Duplicate Twitter Account 1 Exhibit #2 Duplicate Twitter Account 2 What a novel idea. Cloned Twitter accounts Tweeting spammy duplicate MLM content! If I were guessing, I would say this could become a major hassle for both Twitter and Twitter’s audience.
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Cloned Twitter Accounts: The New Twitter Spam, Tweeting Duplicate Content