Why are there no spam or trolls on Twitter?

posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 8 March, 2008 to the comment subset

Riddle me this: why are there no spam or trolls on Twitter?

Answer:

Because it’s rather like an RSS feed – you choose to read it – and nobody so far has worked out how to spam a feed.

I wonder if that is really so? (The bit about Twitter being troll free, not the bit about spamming a RSS feed)

Tags: RSS, RSS-feeds, spam, spammers, trolls, twitter

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Well think about it, with Twitter, you choose who you subscribe to – and nobody is going to subscribe to a spammer.

Bryce at 9:47 am on Sunday, 9 March, 2008
Yep, that’s it. There’s just something about Twitter being spam free (or relatively so I guess) that somehow seems too good to be true though :)

John Lampard at 2:09 pm on Sunday, 9 March, 2008

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