7 Ways to Identify a Twitter Spammer

I told you to use TwitBlock to spot and block Twitter spammers from your Twitter followers. But how do you identify a Twitter spammer? Here are a few tips to help you.

Generally, to identify a Twitter spammer, we look at the user’s avatar icon, user name, number of followers, number of following, number of tweets, tweets pattern.

A Twitter user is probably a spammer, if it matches more than 1 of the following:

1. their profiles are using default Twitter avatar OR using a sexy pic as avatar.
2. their names are ended with numeric, example: david567
3. they are following many other Twitter users but only has few followers.
4. they have no update or few updates with links.
5. their Twitter updates contains repeated tweets with link.
6. their Twitter updates are published using ONLY Twitter API.
7. they show you how to “make money overnight”.

Once you found a Twitter spammer, please report it to Twitter (read my previous blog post: How to report a Twitter spammer?).

Follow me at @liewcf (I am NOT a spammer!)

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*Any tips you want to add to the list? Please share with us in the comment.