Benjamin Jackson recommends daily efforts to kill the 'bots following you on Twitter, for the greater good: "consistently reporting real spammers does work. If you're older than 35 and it helps, you can think of it as picking up litter off the streets of the Information Superhighway." [Buzzfeed]

  • wrybread

    Maybe its just because I’m older than 35, but I didn’t get the “if you’re older than 35″ reference? Is he seriously suggesting that people over 35 wouldn’t be able to see the intrinsic value in getting spam off Twitter without an incredibly obvious analogy?

    Kids today! In my day we had Bayesian spam filters! And we liked them!

    • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

      I think he means that if you’re under 35, you won’t get the Internet Superhighway reference.

      • wrybread

        Ok, as long as I can plausibly suspect that its someone else being called stupid and not me, I’m cool with it.

    • http://tortoise-brand-pot-scrubbing-cleaner.myopenid.com/ Mister

      Erm, I think it’s because you have to be older than 35 to remember the incessant no-littering campaigns of the ’70s and early ’80s….

      • Charlie B

         Ghods, I wish they would bring those back.  The litter is getting worse every year.

  • http://littleredtent.net/LRT Edie Howe

    I would, if I knew which ones were spambots.  Can someone help me out here? 

    • kairos

      The links to alleged naked pics and dubious offers of thousands of followers are you usually a tipoff.

      • oasisob1

        The accounts with 3 obviously commmercial tweets – accounts following 15,000 people.

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

    If you’re from Michigan, you can think of it as picking up ten cent deposit cans and bottles off the side of the Freeway of Love.

  • z7q2

    Came for a discussion of people discussing their enemata on twitter, leaving disappointed.