Aaron Richard's dashboard

What the hell? He's back? One of Twitter's most notorious spammers gets banned, and then you let him back? WTF Twitter?

Finally banned! Thanks Twitter! Hopefully all of his drones will give up now.

We should add Bill Crosby and his "Twitter Traffic Machine" spam to the list of obnoxious pyramid scheme spammers on Twitter.

Thanks badkitty_. We'll beat them eventually. Rumor has it that Twitter will start charging for API access eventually, and when they do, all these clowns will go somewhere else. – Aaron Richard, on July 23, 2009 18:54

It is a problem. It diminishes the user experience for everyone else, and it's spam. It creates noise, and makes search less effective. It's annoying when you have new people follow you just because you mentioned some key word. It's even more annoying when you think for a second that they are real, follow them, and then end up with a DM inbox full of spam.

You're right about one thing: the Internet is 90% spam and people running "get rich quick" schemes.

If you want to go out and make money on the Internet, that's fine. Create content and create value.

From the sound of it, it's people like you that make the Internet a shittier place for everyone else. On the plus side, you create jobs, because Twitter now has to go out and start hiring full time employees to ban people like you. – Aaron Richard, on July 22, 2009 05:17

How is it not you? All this spam redirects to *your* site. Is the TwitterTrafficMachine.com not yours?

Are you implying that someone else is making money for constantly spamming out your site and even trying to own the associations with it being a scam?

It's people like you who ruin the Internet for everyone else. This is why we can't have nice things. The only plus side, I guess, is that some people do have jobs simply to create filters to block out all of the spam. – Aaron Richard, on June 17, 2009 19:30