http://ryandillman.com The personal blog of a Hoosier tech geek and comic book nerd Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:49:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://ryandillman.com/2009/01/20/tweetback-spam/ http://ryandillman.com/2009/01/20/tweetback-spam/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:15:58 +0000 Ryan Dillman http://ryandillman.com/?p=144 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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