Twitter has introduced an easy way to report spammers by adding links to report users as spam to twitter profiles.

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I saw this on the newly launched Retweet.com which is a direct competitor to Tweetmeme both of which aggregate links on twitter and show them Digg style to the users.

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Spammers just got a bit smarter and have started to use the subject line to post messages instead of using the email body.

Quite recently I have been on the receiving end of some email newsletters, no matter how hard I try to unsubscribe from them they still sending them to me, the most logical option for me in such cases is to mark such messages as spam.

Ok, more scam alerts for Twitter, we are doing this just to make sure that whoever uses twitter is aware of the scam that people who use twitter face everyday, something that makes twitter a really really stupid service for many who are new to it.

You know, the bad guys are always behind exploiting the scoop to their best abilities. Michael Jackson died (RIP) and everyone thronged the internet to confirm the news and find further leads. But it didn’t take the spammers long to capitalize on the massive interest in Michael Jackson. Security researchers have warned people, about the [...]

Sometime back we had posted about a serious problem in Google’s own ad network, where it posted ads without demarcations, to top it Google posted ads that allowed users to buy links at a really throwaway amount all at the cost of the website publisher.

We do not require Twitter to become the next Facebook, however few incidents in the past and quite a few more in the near future will make it a spammers paradise which will then leave twitter with nothing but spammers to pit against itself.

This is part of the user recommendation marathon where we write articles based on recommendations users have given us. In this we are going to answer a question Ashley recommended to us. Ashley asks I have a company email account which is regular webmail provided by our hosting provider, I can access all the mails [...]

Have you been getting spam emails from a site talkf(dot)com? Do you get tons of spam from them? Well if you do you are not the only one, there may be tons of sites that have this, I have got 300 spam comments in last two days from them and thanks to Akistmet I am safe enough but then, few of them do escape the Akismet web too and land up in your normal comments.