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Spammers target Twitter

Tony Croxford

Why Twammers? 

TWATTERS more like!

Billy

Just about to fire up the Twat-O-Tron (tm) 

Stop

Twammers..... Twammers!.....TWAMMERS!!!! for fcuk sake.

I think I need to go for a little lie down.

Richard

Twammers: Oh, come on! 

Go

That's got to be up there with blook as crappest made up word even it does point to "Twat" being the word for a spammed tweet.

Can't we do any better? Guano perhaps - annoying if it lands on you, but made Nauru a fortune from nitrate mining...

Alan W. Rateliff, II

@Tony: "Twatters" could work 

Paris Hilton

If you think about how they might be "squatting" on an otherwise real or useful Twitter account. Put the two together and you get "Twatters."

Paris, well...

martin burns

I'm missing the point here... 

Paris Hilton

So, the twammers follow me. Unless I'm stupid enough to auto-follow every mouth-breather who follows me, I won't see anything they post.

Paris, cos even she's got more sense than that.

Anonymous Coward

Twammers? 

Flame

/prays for nuclear holocaust

Anonymous Coward

seen it already 

Thumb Up

I had one sign up as a follower the next day it had gone...

So someone is aware and fixing it..

Dan

Hypocrisy of a spammer 

Pirate

I love how they guy is threatening the blog with legal action for using copyrighted screenshots of his software when he himself has ripped of the Twitter logo and himself uses screenshots of Twitter that clearly state "©2009 Twitter".

Ian Ferguson

Twamming? 

Happy

May I also suggest:

Blamming: Posting blog spam

Damming: Posting Digg spam

Ramming: Posting spam on the Reg's comments section

Jamming: Posting spam on Just Giving's short donation comments section (an expensive form of spamming, to be fair)

Hamming: Posting spam on theatre discussion boards

Spambing: shaving spam into the side of sheep

etcetera ad infinitum.

Anonymous Coward

Spammers target twitter 

Coat

... and nobody really notices...

Anonymous Coward

What took them so long? 

Joke

<nt>

JT2008

Who cares? 

Coat

Really?

Mine's the one with the pen and post-it pad in it.

Jeff F.

They got me the same day 

Stop

as the Reg posted this informative nugget. And I thought for a second it was really a hot babe looking to score.. Drat! Darn Twatters, twammers, what ever.. its a waste.!