It’s a pain checking out every follower, but, generally, if no one is following them, or they don’t have tweets to match their followers, they’re a spammer.
Just followed a friend who was moving his account- and got this verification tweet: Joe X ” uses TrueTwit validation service. Please follow this link to validate your profile. ”
Heading over to TrueTwit there is this:
Twitter spam is a drag. What if you could know for sure that your followers are truly human, and not some cyborg? TrueTwit is designed to help you: Verify people from robots Avoid Twitter spam Save time managing your followersBy signing up now for free, all of your new followers will get a validation notice via direct message. If they too are TrueTwit users or pass the CAPTCHA test, you get an email indicating they are a TrueTwit validated human!
via TrueTwit Sign Up.
Granted a Captcha isn’t a guarantee it’s not a robot or spammer, but, it’s an extra obstacle.
Now to go check on all my new followers.
I’m not going to tell you how- I’ll let AJ do it for me.
Want to link your Twitter account to Facebook so that your status updates sync? Easy, here’s how:
via How to link Twitter to Facebook – A Twitter Tutorial | AJ Vaynerchuk.
Twitter to Facebook is essentially RSS for the masses. People who won’t subscribe to your WordPress site- will read your feed in Facebook- so you can link you blog- or tweet about each new post- and have your tweets update Facebook.
Seems convoluted, but I get a 20 person bump to my site by hitting my 500+ Facebook friends about updates to my site.
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