If my experience is any indication, Twitter has seen an uptick in spam lately. The Twitter spam that I see most frequently are keyword spam. The keyword that I’ve seen generate the most spam lately is “iPad”, although that’s obviously indicative of what I and my friends talk about.<\/p>\n
I got a lot of iPad-spambot activity earlier this week. \u00a0At first, I was annoyed, since the pattern was easy to detect. \u00a0But then I noticed another pattern about the accounts themselves: of the 28 spam replies that I received, all but one of them had female names.<\/p>\n
This is in stark contrast to the email spam sitting in my junk folder. \u00a0Looking at the first 50, only two have female names. \u00a0The rest are a mix of male names and company or product names (“Online Doctorate”, “Peak Performance”, etc).<\/p>\n
Why do Twitter spambots apparently overwhelmingly choose female names?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If my experience is any indication, Twitter has seen an uptick in spam lately. The Twitter spam that I see most frequently are keyword spam. The keyword that I’ve seen generate the most spam lately is “iPad”, although that’s obviously indicative of what I and my friends talk about. I got a lot of iPad-spambot … Continue reading why are spambots female?<\/span>