Tweetback Spam
Okay, it looks like I jumped on the Tweetback bandwagon a little early. In the last few days, one of the blogs I installed the TweetBacks Wordpress plug-in on received over 1500 spam tweetbacks. I was forced to delete the plug-in for now. I also had it installed on this blog, but did not receive a spam attack here for some odd reason (lower PR/traffic on this blog, perhaps?). Anyway, I’ve now installed TweetSuite, which at this point doesn’t seem to be as susceptible to Tweetback Spam. It’s been a while since Wordpress spam was a serious problem because of plug-ins like Askimet that do such a great job of blocking comment spam. It’s easy to forget that the spammers are almost always two steps ahead of any new technology. Hopefully, TweetSuite will be a better solution.
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February 5th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Thanks for your post about the TweetBacks spamming issue. It was your post (among a few others) that led me to the conclusion that the problem was not my own isolated incident and that keeping the plug-in was simply more trouble than it was worth. If you’re interesed, I’ve blogged about my experience:
http://www.ninja-nerd.com/wordpress-plug-in-tweetbacks-considered-harmful/