spam

Twitter have lately been targeted by spammers who attempted (and managed) to put their hashtags into the trending topics.

The author is discussing why it is so important that twitter has spam filters.

Kirk Petersen writes about ads on Facebook that are mimicking Facebook's look, making them look like Facebook applications.  

David Merman Scott isn't too excited about Twitter feeds from companies without a real person behind them: "Many marketers have now discovered Twitter. That's a

Sean O'Driscoll on the ever-(un)popular topic of trolls:"One of the challenges every community will eventually face…if not continuously face… is the

"AFB is urging MySpace, Friendster and Facebook to offer an audio alternative to their CAPTCHAs. [...]"

"According to a new report, over the past 12 months more than four-fifths of social networking site users said that they had received unwanted friend requests,

"It might be unknown to many but the majority of all social networks were started by a spamming of some sorts." [...]