Twitter Spam

I guess you could say I'm not at all impressed at the level of spam in my e-mail inbox, but what I didn't release is Twitter is being spammed as well.

With numerous corporations and organizations gearing their marketing campaigns towards social media, more questionable organizations are flooding twitter and twitters with useless junk.

Since my account set up I have had many direct messages, here's what I discovered.

• 29% of Messages contain links to Pyramid Schemes
• 19% of Messages contain links to other services and social networks
• 19% of Messages are real conversation, by people liking me or replying to a message I had twittered.
• 14% of Messages contain links to other people's website, which I never hear from again.
• 14% of Messages contained to referral linked
• 5% of Messages are from twitter-bots.

Spam is like a virus it migrates and adapts from its form to a newer version that's compatible with the latest service. I can tell you one thing: I've only clicked on 2 maybe 3 links. IT’S NOT WORKING!