Twitter Has Come Of Age
Posted: May 5th, 2009 | Author: khosrow | Tags: internet, twitter, Web 2.0 | 5 Comments »
What’s the hottest new thing these days? Why it’s twitter! And where people are, the spammers will surely follow. Like the parasites of the internet ecosystem, they will find a way in. Then they will start hammering away, sending messages until they get a click here and a click there.
I woke up this morning to see that 5 or 6 people had started following me on twitter. When I went to their profile to check who they were I was greeted with the page below.
This can mean bad things because twitter’s sign up page has the standard anti-spam measure of captcha. So either the spammers are using sophisticated technology to get in, or they’ve outsourced the sign up process to a large number of human workers. I would prefer if it was the latter since it means there’s a limit to how much spam I will get. Although I remember a reading a while back that Gmail’s captcha was broken.
Captcha is not that effective anymore, even visual captcha is now being cracked by hackers to automatically sign up and register automated spammers.
Captcha is not that effective anymore, even visual captcha is now being cracked by hackers to automatically sign up and register automated spammers.
I agree. The wave of spammers just means that it is worth their while to get into twitter and they assume there's a population that's not techy enough to know not click on any and every link.
I agree. The wave of spammers just means that it is worth their while to get into twitter and they assume there’s a population that’s not techy enough to know not click on any and every link.
As the process of dealing with hackers improved, the hackers themselves improved too. The better way to do this is to erase the unnecessary and obvious spam…this is a great way to exercise your fingers…for free (lol)