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Spam

Twitter: @Replies Rock, DMs Over-rated

February 2, 2010

What’s the the most powerful feature of Twitter?
It’s definitely the ability to send an “@” reply to anyone on twitter – without their permission.
Now “great tools come with great responsibility” (yup, just made it up
Spam people on twitter, and you will get blocked, labeled a spammer, folks will hate on you, and word [...]

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Bad Words To Blacklist In Your Blog’s Comments

March 27, 2007

I was getting about 500+ spam-comments a day. I’m now down to about 20. Based on my personal experience with spam, I have created a list of “bad words”, which, when used as a blacklist, will make most of your spam go away.
If you’re using Wordpress, copy the list below and paste it into the [...]

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