Though this service is extremely useful, however it can also get your account spammed with unwanted followers.

But How?

What happens is that whenever you search for certain names in Twitter search, the search activity is logged by other Twitter bots. The spammers then through these search activity, based on the topic they are looking for, get themselves to follow you and over a period of time may or may not attract other similar followers.

For example:

I searched for webhosting and within a day of searching this name, I was being followed by the people interested in webhosting ( I presume spammers ) and started getting replies for free web hosts.

Block Spam!

Now that you know you are being followed by these spammer, you might want to get rid of them. This can be easily done by simply blocking them and restricting their access to your account by enabling ‘Protect My Updates’ in Settings tab.

Many of you might also be thinking at the back of your mind  -

” Why the heck would you want to remove a follower ? ”

And my answer is WHY NOT?

• I don’t think increasing your followers count with such spammers would do any good to you. What’s the point of having 2359 followers, out of which 1500 are spammers!
• Secondly, you would only be encouraging spam.

Having said that, I would like to add that this was my personal experience and have no idea whether any of you have faced such a situation before!

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I bet many of you would have certainly experienced such poor commenting and those who moderate their comments might not have allowed them to be posted !

These are known as Broken Comments, which have been posted just for the sake of getting back links! Usually you will get such annoying replies on sites with good page ranks. Before writing this post, I was reading an article of one of the famous pro bloggers  and noticed that out of the Top 5 comments, 2 were broken.

The ‘creators’ of such comments may have posted them with the view to draw huge traffic, however, I don’t think people will ever want to visit the site of such a blogger, who gives a damn about the article and instead is focused on generating traffic for himself. And personally speaking, I hate such meaningless comments!!

If you have got nothing to say and still want to thank him, then thank the author through Twitter or Facebook, instead of writing one line comments with no meaning. If you really want to get attention, then a quality comment is a must. Not only will good comments attract readers,  it will also encourage them to interact with you. Getting them interested in your views and way of thinking will definitely encourage them to visit your site and who knows, they might turn into regular visitors.

However, I am not denying the fact that some of them are genuine too, but most  of the time the motive is something else. In short, to sum up, fake comments lack sincerity and are only meant to drive traffic and are nothing more than ( set of ) rigmarole.

Commenting is a powerful tool and should therefore be used carefully.

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