Spambusting: Protect Your Twitter Account

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Spambusting: Protect Your Twitter Account

We love Twitter. It’s a powerful tool for social media marketing, a great way to engage with people in your industry, and an all-round fun way to stay connected. Unfortunately, Twitter spam has been around almost as long as Twitter itself. From phishing to malware to hacked accounts, Twitter has its share of shady characters trying to get access to your information. There’s not much to do about that–except report the spammers (see below)– but there is a lot you can do to protect yourself, and to get rid of viruses that may have already infected your account. (And if you use your Twitter account for social media marketing, you should be protecting it just like you’d protect any valuable business asset). Here are some tips and tricks for blocking Twitter spam.

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http://twitter.com raven

do i have to put my tweets on privacy to stop spamming people?
http://www.vtldesign.com Doug Ridley

Hi Raven,
If you follow steps 1-3 you’re account should be secure and you shouldn’t have to worry about spam being sent from your account.

Doug
Taelor

What if I am not spamming anybody through DM but its being posted as a link on my wall
Andrea

My account keeps sending Spam DMs to all my followers. I tried everything and put my account on private but, now my tweets have spams. I don’t know what to do, nor do I want to deactivate my twitter officially.
http://www.vtldesign.com Doug Ridley

Hi Andrea, Have you changed your email password and also revoked access for all your applications? – Doug
http://Twitter Lucia

My account is sending DM’s to people on twitter and spamming all my follwers, how do I stop it? Do I have to delete my twitter?

http://www.vtldesign.com Ellen Stuart

Hi Lucia- The first thing we recommend is changing your password right away, to something that’s different from any other passwords you use. Then, follow these steps from Twitter Support: https://support.twitter.com/groups/33-report-abuse-or-policy-violations/topics/122-reporting-violations/articles/31796-my-account-has-been-compromised

To keep this from happening again, check out these tips on keeping your account secure: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76036-safety-keeping-your-account-secure

Hope this is helpful, let us know!
Ellen

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Thanks, this is good info. I wondered if there was a way to keep spammers at bay using Twitter…I’ve never gotten any of these types of generic replies, but if I do, now I know!

Vital_Design

Sort of – When it comes to spam messages that are tweeted to you there really isn’t anything you can do.

When it comes to DM spam messages you can closely watch who you’re following and make sure to follow people that you trust. People who you don’t follow can’t send you DMs.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how careful you are, eventually you’ll run into a spam message. My best advice is to just be aware and don’t click on a link that seems suspicious. – Doug