Does Twitter have too much spam and fake accounts?

Does Twitter have too much spam and fake accounts?

  • Yes

  • No

  • I don't know or don't care


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Dean

Well-Known Member
Twitter is great for us internet marketers since we can reach a lot of people and businesses very easily. Lately though I have noticed a huge increase in spam and fake accounts.

Do you think that it's getting out of hand and that Twitter should do something about this or does it not matter to you?
 

Storm

Active Member
OMG yes it does. It seems like about half of all the twitter accounts are just fake accounts that are there for no reason other than to spam or sell followers.
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
OMG yes it does. It seems like about half of all the twitter accounts are just fake accounts that are there for no reason other than to spam or sell followers.
Yes you are right and I am hoping that one day Twitter will do something about it but I don't expect that to happen since it hasn't happened yet. :(
 

Storm

Active Member
Yes you are right and I am hoping that one day Twitter will do something about it but I don't expect that to happen since it hasn't happened yet. :(
well maybe if enough people actually took the time to complain then they would. Most people complain about things but do nothing to help.
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
well maybe if enough people actually took the time to complain then they would. Most people complain about things but do nothing to help.
People have. I have read about it and I have seen the complaints before. I think they just have other concerns right now, like how many accounts they have.
 

ulterios

Well-Known Member
Twitter sure does have way too many spam and fake accounts and it would sure be nice if they started to do something about the junk but from the looks of it they won't be doing anything about it in the near future.
 

KeralMTG

Active Member
I don't know yet if they have too much because I do not use it much. I do get many followers that are for buying followers so maybe they do.
 

JennyJ

Member
I started a Twitter account for my marketing and I got about 25 out of the first 100 followers that were just junk and spam. That proves to me that there is too much junk on Twitter. They need to delete some of those bad accounts.
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
I started a Twitter account for my marketing and I got about 25 out of the first 100 followers that were just junk and spam. That proves to me that there is too much junk on Twitter. They need to delete some of those bad accounts.
I seem to get about %10-%15 spam and junk followers the last couple of weeks so it might be slowing down. Maybe Twitter is cracking down or making other changes that are being reflected.
 

BelCloud

New Member
Although I do not like fake accounts, I see no business advantages twitter will gain if they ban fake accounts. On a business where figures are everything, the drop in accounts and activity will be seen as a bad thing. On twitter I would like to see more metrics about reach and promoting stuff as the main reason for many companies to be there is to promote their business. Why not do it in a smart way? I like the way Facebook does it, but I see many drawbacks on Facebook such as at the attention span of the average user of 3 seconds .
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
Although I do not like fake accounts, I see no business advantages twitter will gain if they ban fake accounts. On a business where figures are everything, the drop in accounts and activity will be seen as a bad thing.
Well Twitter has gotten itself a reputation for having a lot of spam and spam accounts so that can in some ways hurt it and the activity of real users on it.

Lots of people get tired of seeing nothing but fake accounts and spam Tweets so they either use it less or won't use it at all.

I agree that numbers help but fake and/or spam accounts will not be clicking on their ads and if they do then there will not be conversions for the advertiser so they will more than likely spend their advertising dollars somewhere else.
 

Kania

Active Member
I do not know if they have too many fake accounts because I have not used twitter that much and do not have many followers yet. I have noticed that some people have more than one account for the same thing like for the same website of theirs.
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
I have noticed that some people have more than one account for the same thing like for the same website of theirs.
Yes that is very common on Twitter. I have noticed that some even have dozens or more accounts for the exact same website, service or company.
 

Kania

Active Member
Yes that is very common on Twitter. I have noticed that some even have dozens or more accounts for the exact same website, service or company.
Does Twitter allow people to have that many accounts? Most of the social media websites that I have seen will not allow that.
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
Does Twitter allow people to have that many accounts? Most of the social media websites that I have seen will not allow that.
I don't think that Twitter has any kind of maximum number of counts that is a set number. I think that as long as you follow their rules and guidelines then they allow you to have quite a few.

I have several but I only have one per website, specific use and for myself for general use.
 

Kania

Active Member
I don't think that Twitter has any kind of maximum number of counts that is a set number. I think that as long as you follow their rules and guidelines then they allow you to have quite a few.

I have several but I only have one per website, specific use and for myself for general use.
I thought that they might have a limit for the number of accounts in their rules. I don't know why they would allow so many accounts.
 

Catherine1

Active Member
I really don't know about whether or not Twitter has too many spam accounts or not but they do have way too many spam Tweets. :p
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
I really don't know about whether or not Twitter has too many spam accounts or not but they do have way too many spam Tweets. :p
I agree with you Catherine. I have seen some Twitter accounts that are so bad with spam Tweeting that they will Tweet the same Tweet 3, 4. 5 or more Tweets that are EXACTLY the same Tweet only a few minutes apart.

There are also a lot of people that have multiple Twitter accounts that are syncing and doing the exact same thing so they have tons of the exact same Tweet put out at basically the same time.

Some people just go too far with their promoting.
 

Marcos

Active Member
I don't know if they are fake but I have noticed that some websites are using multiple accounts on Twitter. I am not sure what the rules are but it seems like some people or companies are using several for the same things.
 

Dean

Well-Known Member
I don't know if they are fake but I have noticed that some websites are using multiple accounts on Twitter. I am not sure what the rules are but it seems like some people or companies are using several for the same things.
Having multiple Twitter accounts for the same website is pretty common. I understand that there are times when more than one can be useful for other things but I have seen some website/people/companies use multiple for the exact same thing.

I am not sure what Twitters policy is as far as number of accounts for the same use but I know that people are allowed to have several.
 
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