For the last few months I’ve been monitoring a number of Twitter accounts for my friends and associates. I can’t decide if Twitter sucks or it’s a valuable social networking medium.
Twitter SUCKS! It has no way to automatically eliminate the huge amounts of Direct Message Spam that is sent. Yes, I know you can tighten down the screws and manually approve who follows you but that’s not a solution. It works like this: you Follow someone and they use a “Bot” to automatically send you a Direct Message (DM). Not everyone does this but in my informal calculations while helping my GEEK Princess 
named Cathy, around 75% of these DMs are Spam. They are easy to spot since the Bot stuff never uses your full real name on Twitter.
Together, MCI Worldcom, Download.com, and SWREG make millions of dollars from knowingly participating/enabling the sale and or distribution of Spamware which is used to send millions of Spam emails, every hour of every day.
This anemic and vague federal law, which is enforced by the FTC, has been clarified with new definitions for Spam which are effective on March 28, 2005.
Spammers are clever con artist, scam kings, criminals, low life, and all of them belong in jail. In this installment we document a couple of procedures which guarantee that you will receive even more Spam and in other cases part with your hard earned money.
The fifth largest Spam ring in the world was sued by the Texas Attorney General on January 13, 2005 and the next day the same Spam ring was sued by Microsoft. We love this double attack which spans Federal courts in the states of Texas and Washington.
The FTC has has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography Spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia. This is the first Spam litigation brought by the agency under the Adult Labeling Rule of the CAN-SPAM Act. Although we do not normally list the URLs of Adult sites in any of our articles, it’s impossible to properly document this landmark case without doing so. Our apologies to our valuable guests if this offends you.
The Federal legislation titled “CAN-SPAM” is a resounding failure. AOL claims about a 75% reduction in Spam complaints through November 2004 but we think that number includes some marketing spin which inflates it and we so no evidence of any reduction in Spam for the greater Internet population. We do see plenty of evidence that Spammers will continue to use Spyware to infect systems and turn them into “zombies”, sending millions of Spam emails every day.