I have seen the future of twitter and if things do not change then we may find ourselves fighting spam at every turn. I have found this script which searches for keywords and sends an @ to the person based on those keywords. These scripts can be found in many places and are already in use. Don’t believe me? Type a tweet about hosting. I get 2-3 spams @ me right away.

There was a rummor before that twitter was going to make it so you don’t see anyone else’s @’s unless you follow them as well. I will try to explain…

I follow @bob, @dick and @harry.

@bob tweets to something to @harry and I can see @bob’s tweet.

@harry tweets to @sally but because I do not follow @sally I do not see it.

This new system of how @’s would work could eliminate the future @spam’s that are on the horizon. There was a lot of push back to twitter to not do these types of changes to the system as it would cause not to see conversations which we could have commented on and find new people to follow.

What is your thoughts on this?

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