On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Caliban Darklock <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Badera<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > TrueTwit is the most valuable, useful, awesome Twitter third-party app
> I've
> > seen in months. Maybe ever.
>
> I particularly love how all you have to do is see one TrueTwit DM, go
> sign up for TrueTwit yourself, and stop getting those messages ever
> again! You can follow all the people you want, and you're
> auto-verified. I got two of those TrueTwit messages when I was
> auto-following people through Twollo, and just signed up myself. Now I
> don't get them anymore!
>
> Wait... how does that stop spammers, again? It looks like it may just
> add the step "sign up at TrueTwit" to the account creation process
> before you hook up your spambot to the account.
>
> Worthless, if you ask me.
>


Interesting, I was unaware of that mechanism. (Goes to show you how often I
follow these days I guess ... )

That does put a different spin on it. I'd like to see that go away, and then
my point stands.

--ab

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