People have often asked me why is your twitter stream is set to private. Why don’t you just open it up to the rest of the world like everyone else does. Don’t you get this social networking thing. Why are you just trying to keep things private, when if you have a footprint on the web it’s just a little pointless.
Well yes there are lots if good reasons to open up a twitter stream to the public, here are a few:
- It’s really easy for people to decide to connect with you if they can read your previous tweets.
Spammers are Getting Tricky
Posted in blogging, musing
If you run a Blog or any publicly facing form on the web then you now take it that spammers are a constant problem.
I have noticed over the years that the quality of the comment spammers has been improving. It is to be expect really, as the tools to combat spammers step up and gets better so the spammers will improve their scripts and tools. Not that I like it.
Over the years you get to see the general type of spam:
Tagged: blogging, comments, duplicate-comments, spam