Comments on: What is a twitter spam cloud?

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:00:19 +0000

Shawn, I don’t know if anyone knows for sure why Twitter does this. But, I think it’s something they reserve for the “serious” cases.

If everyone who had a spammy follower was shut down there would be no twitter!

I’d love to hear other people’s opinions on what type of spam causes twitter to start shutting down accounts.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:36:35 +0000

My account was suspended last Monday, and just today I got the same sort of message you got, and my account back. Only I can’t trace it back to any tweet I made. Are you actually saying that if someone following you starts spamming, Twitter will suspend the accounts of anyone that person follows? Wow! I never really bothered blocking spammy followers, usually they just go away on their own after a while, but I guess now I’ll be cleaning out my followers but good. That’s ridiculous. Twitter obviously knows who sent out the spammy tweet, and as long as you didn’t retweet that tweet they should leave you alone. It’s as if the police did a raid on a telemarketing call center, found several kilos of coke in the desk drawer of one of the employees, and because that person was calling your number to try to sell you credit card insurance, the cops come and arrest you too.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:52:44 +0000

Thanks for the info. I to received the same message after fearing someone had hacked my account!

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:14:37 +0000

I just had my twitter account restored after being shut down for the last 2 days. I got the same exact response you did…which was quite funny because I thought it was a personal note from the twitter support person. haha.

I too was wondering what the heck a spam cloud was. Thanks for the insight.