Not 12 hours after having this positive experience, I get an email from same mass blogging service telling me that a user is now “following me” along with the user’s profile image. Only the user is a spammer and their image is the equivalent of a goatse.
So I’ve just been goatse-d at 8:45 am by a spammer and all I did to walk into this trap was to read an email from a trusted correspondent – the intermediary.
I understand that the political aspects – to see and be seen – are key to driving growth and thus reaching a useful scale but there’s something slightly off with a process that can so easily be hijacked to deliver a Trojan horse.
Updated: there are many clever suggestions from the Stop Twitter Spam user group.