Hello everyone. I just came up with an idea, and I hope it goes viral. It has to do with Twitter, on which I have an account.
Some time ago, I started seeing #ff or #followfriday. Hash marks denote keywords for easy searching. A friend explained that it simply referred to when people would post other users for people to follow, prepended by an @ sign of course. For instance:
#followfriday @omeron23
would suggest that others follow me on Follow Friday. The idea seemed novel and cool for about a week, but I quickly started seeing friends complain. It makes it easy for spammers to harvest addresses, and many people notice an influx of spammers on Fridays now. This gave me an idea: Spammer Saturday!
In contrast to Follow Friday, Spammer Saturday will serve as the day to identify and delete all the annoying spammers that latch onto your account, largely on Follow Friday. Just do it on Saturday, and use the #spammersaturday hash tag. For example:
#spammersaturday @spammer1 @spammer2 @spammer3
You might also like to add the word unfollow to contrast with Follow Friday.
I hope this idea catches on. It seems simple enough, and makes an easy way to identify spammers for the good of all. Feel free to retweet. I DON’T LIKE SPAM!
