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Tag: spam

  • Twitter's other spam problem: Username chaos

    A few months ago, Twitter published a State of Twitter Spam blog post. It claimed to have reduced spam from fake accounts to little more than 1%, lowering the number of offers for prescription drugs, dodgy online scams and invitations…

  • Why You Should Avoid Mass-Emailing Using the "To" Field

    This may seem like an obvious blog post to most readers. If that’s the case, just move along, nothing to see here. However, if you’re wondering why people have been giving you snappy responses and a stern look when you…

  • WordPress & Akismet: Why It's Important to Mark Spam as Spam

    According to Spamhaus, over 96% of all email is spam. That leaves 2% for Facebook notifications, 1.5% for those forwards your mum sends you that you saw in 2001 anyways & about 0.5% for those nagging emails your boss sends…

  • The Twitter backlash begins: Welcome to a world of pain and spam

    A couple of days ago, Hugh quit Twitter to work on writing his book. Now I’m considering quitting Twitter, but nobody’s signed me up for a book. The reason? Spam, spam, eggs, bacon and spam. Well, without the eggs or…

  • Monster.ie doesn't understand data protection

    [Update: Some further info on the post on Michele Neylon’s blog. Monster PR? Get on this one like a fat kid on a smartie now!] Tom Raftery posted yesterday to let the world know that Monster.ie doesn’t quite grasp the…