How to Check Your Twitter Spam Score

How to Check Your Twitter Spam Score:

Those who have been on Twitter recently might have definitely observed the increasing number of spam that has started on twitter and their number is continuously increasing in massive manner. Twitter now looks like an email inbox and has many un-wanted posts. But how can this happen in such a small number of followers. So it is important that those who are on twitters should know who and how the spammers are posting some of their thoughts. The problem will persist till Twitter finds out some way to remove them out.

A few methods to recognize Twitter Spam:

As the acceptance and implementation of Twitter is growing rapidly, there is an increased growth in number of spam and occurrence of excessive noise in this kind of social network web site. Not everyone who is your follower on a Twitter is your well wisher and friend. Apart from a few Twitter basics, the following article will discuss a few methods of recognizing twitter spam and avoid them as well.

1. 1.     Verify significant numbers

The first warning signs are reflected in numbers. So be attentive and careful to the subsequent alerts, particularly when numbers cross thousand marks

• A profile that follows more people and has lesser number of followers
• Profiles that have big number of followers as well as following but doesn’t have comparable updates for all of them.
• Huge numbers of following and followers in short time period.

Services such as twitter Grader and Twitterholic give an easy method to find out the exact date of account creation. They also provide a score to the account in relationship with others.

1. 2.     Pay attention to update style

Go through recent updates taken place in the profile and find out whether their style matches with your interests and taste. Trends that should be considered in the Twitterstream of a profile:

• The proportion of updates that contain the links
• The exact date and time when the links were updated
• Frequency of answering to other users

The most important thing in twitter that is valuable is the sharing and distribution of information to all users and friends. But a vital thing to be considered is to note whether a profile is only broadcasting links and may be just giving simple answers without much importance to context.

1. 3.     Frequency of responses 

If a user puts up a question to another user he or she may reply to it. But when a profile is sending replies to other users’ questions it doesn’t mean that are actually having a dialogue.

Employ Twitter Search to know the details about their conversation and try to know the frequency of answers from one user to the other and the profile engaged in conversation as well.

In case your search shows that only few users are answering and replying back, acknowledging or re tweeting their updates then they will not be considered as spam and will not increase the spam score of the user.