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This is really a good information. we will be extra cautious using the twitter. thanks for such a important information.

you know one man did a great think for spammers.. after reading this article.. he make a system to reply all twitter user who post any mail id..

listen wt happened ..

i posted a mail id on twitter .. (good for spammers)

he replied me a warning.. and deleted that tweet..

but how to delete my mail id from his tweet status...

best way for spammers ... subscribe his rss feed (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/69295332.rss)

you know he is -- http://twitter.com/emailbot

thanx for your time.

spammers are the "somkers" of the internet you see them, you smell them , you give'em dirty looks ,but you know down and under that they will always be there some where. They'll go away when the internet disapears.

Sam the Man
www.brooklyn-guide.com

I never add my email to my tweets. To do so is just asking for trouble. Most emails I see are just spam ads anyway.

I'm not sure there is any value in collecting email addresses from folks spamming twitter anyway, it's just spammers meeting other spammers...

Since I know about this, now I start to worry about

I don't mind sending trusted individuals my e-mail address via Twitter PM's, but I would advertise them on my Tweets. It never really occurred to me that people would post their actual e-mail address on Twitter. It certainly sounds like an invitation for spammers.

Thanks for the heads up.

so are you trying to trick us

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thx for the help now i no just how i get all this supite junk mail to my hotmail.com but then its werd i get 0 junk mail to my website email

pls reply to me on how/ y ppl ad these codes to these website or do they host them on there sites and send them to these websites

You mean if I write my email address on an electronic social service based on the fact that anybody who wants to read my writings can do so easily might be read by somebody I don't know?? YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT?? that is pure insanity! why does twitter do that! I can't believe this, am I going to have to go back to writing my contact info on a bathroom stall and pretending to be surprised about that?

This article is common sense. Sad that people don't have any.

Another problem with social networking that can be exploited is Facebook. A lot of people don't realize there is a Phone Book within facebook where you can get all your friends' numbers. So if you mass - add people for the purposes of playing Mafia Wars, for example, that means all those 'friends' now have your mobile and land lines at their fingertips.

Not sure how many telemarketers are using Facebook to get leads, if ANY, but hey, it COULD happen!

Webovator
http://webovator.com/blog/

Thanks for the heads up. We have been fairlty active on Twitter but we'll be sure not to include our email details in the future.

Don´t join social network if you don´t want to receive spam!

How disrespectful to call people who want to promote their product *spammers*! Aren´t we all here to promote something... When Twitter came on the scene they were smappers too - nobody knew about them. When they started they didn´t have anybody on their newly created network.

Think about what you are calling a spam. If somebody unknown to you introduces you to something you need or want you´ll THANK them, but if they don´t - don´t bad mouth them.

Well, I don't see any good reason to put your email address in the tweets. The web is full of spammers and when you put up your mail address in the tweets, it is most likely to be misused by the spammers. What I have learned in the past is that you should never post your email addresses on any social network.

Actually i think the potential for content spam (spamming tweets) is much higher then email harvesting. Twitter really needs an "ignore tweet" versus keyword blacklists. Once you are following just a few users it becomes almost impossible to wade through the noise...