There was some significant spammy Twitter activity today on the network. I’ve received a number of tweets throughout the day that were less than what I’d expect from the people I received them from in my followers lists.
As you can read in the screen captures above, it’s the obvious sex and performance subjects of topic that we’re used to receiving in our email Inboxes. The problem now is the increase in activity on the twitter micro-blogging platform.
The two messages I’ve received multiple times today are the following:
hi, i’m 24/female/horny… i have to get off here but message me on my windows live messenger name Paris455love@hotmail.com
and
hhey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here [link removed]
The massive onslaught makes me wonder if these accounts were really hacked, or if someone they’re just being spoofed. Regardless, we don’t need this junk on twitter. I think this sort of thing can start to significantly damage the increasing usage of the service.
If these accounts are being spoofed, if I had to start weeding through messages where 10%+ started being spam, it would impact my ongoing willingness to fire up the service. With the recent release of Google Buzz, timing on can’t be good.