I am long overdue on a post about DISQUS, the comment system that I use on all of my blogs and absolutely LOVE. I owe you a more thorough review and overview on that service soon.
But I’ve been experiencing some strange spam through their comment system I wanted to point out today. Here is a screenshot that I took earlier from my Twitter account.
Now I was able to delete the comments from the post using Disqus’ comment moderation system. But these four tweets are still public for the world of Twitter to see.
This spam strikes me as odd. After all, aren’t I weirdly getting more benefit from this spam than the spammer? Curiosity may cause you (or me for that matter) to click on the account that tweeted the link but the retweeted username AND the link given are mine. So they are basically spamming my link for me. That’s… weird.
Now I usually follow anyone who retweets me so that may be their game but even so, it seems like a lot of work to just get me to follow a spam account. What do the spammers gain from this?
Anyway, I wanted to share this with you because it was, frankly, odd. Have you been experiencing anything like this? What do you think the spammers are gaining from this strategy?
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Heya,
I do not see any spam on that post, if you see it again shoot me a message (help@disqus.com) and I'll take a deeper look for ya.
Giannii,
I think you may have misread the post. I already deleted the spam from the post, the issue is that there is no way to delete it from Twitter. I don't really care, I was just curious why anyone would want to spam out my link. I don't understand what the spammers gain from it.
Retweet spam is pretty lame. 🙂
If you're logged in as a mod, you can remove individual reactions though. Hope that helps a little.
allways great reading an interesting article
I'm leaving this obviously spam comment up because it's very funny that they spammed an article about spam. It's all very meta.
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