Recently I post a tweet on what to call for spam that exist on twitter. This is a follow-up of the post on affiliate marketing on Twitter and the cost of social media. One best answer came back to me.
(Brian Ellis) bc42 : @hamdaniamin or spitter
But why do I think spitter sound more rhyme.
You already know – SPAM.
Wikipedia defines SPAM as unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. From here, you’ll be introduce to:
- Mobile phone spam or mostly known as M-spam, unsolicited text message
- Forum spam, useless and advertisement post on forum
- Spamdexing, manipulating search engine to create an illusion of popularity for web pages
- Spam in blog, or most largely know as SPLOG
- Newsgroup spam, advertisement and forgery on newsgroup
- Messaging spam, or popular known as SPIM.
What is Twitter?
Well most of Tweet user already know what is Twitter and almost everyone can define it correctly. Wikipedia define Twitter and microblogging as:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging, instant messaging, email, MP3 or the web.
The content of a micro-blog differs from a traditional blog due to the limited space per message. Many micro-blogs provide short messages about personal matters, commentary on a person-to-person level, or a link dump.
On why instant messaging is different from Twitter
Therefore it is not similar to instant messaging, because Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text and conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet. When spam occured at instant messaging platform it will be called SPIM.
So what is SPITTER – Spam Tweet?
Twitter Help on Suspended Account define SPAM as:
- if you are following other accounts in order to gain attention to your account or links therein, you may be considered spam,
- If you are creating a series of accounts in order to promote the same thing, you may be considered spam,
- If you are sending large numbers of @reply messages that are not genuine replies, you may be considered spam,
- If you are creating updates in order to show up in search results, you may be considered spam,
- If you are disguising links (i.e., writing about one thing but linking to another), you may be considered spam, and
- If a large number of users have blocked you (relative to those following you), you may be considered spam.
So if spam in blog, we call SPLOG and Twitter is a form of micro blogging, can we call spam in Twitter as SPITTER?
What do you think? Or should we call it by other names? And what names would that be?
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