{"id":44,"date":"2009-05-28T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rglas.dds.nl\/wordpress%20blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/28\/lovely-spam-wonderful-twam-or-is-it-spitter\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:49:29","slug":"lovely-spam-wonderful-twam-or-is-it-spitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2009\/05\/28\/lovely-spam-wonderful-twam-or-is-it-spitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely spam, wonderful twam. Or is it spitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months back I made a little <a href=\"http:\/\/rglas.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/lovely-spam-wonderful-spam.html\">post <\/a>on blog comment spamming and \u2018splogging\u2019 in relation to World of Warcraft gold sellers. I was now reading up on the way that twitter&#8217;s social network is also creaking under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoptwitterspam.com\/blog\/\">the weight of spam<\/a>. One of the ways to twam\/spitter (apparantly, the jury still hasn&#8217;t decided on that one) remains to create random twitterbots to start spamming the twittersphere using popular hash tags related to the product or service you want to sell. <\/p>\n<p>So I decided to search for <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23wow\">#wow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23warcraft\">#warcraft<\/a> on twitter. And lo and behold, waves upon waves of gold seller and power leveling spam. <\/p>\n<p>In China alone, an estimated <a href=\"http:\/\/virtual-economy.org\/blog\/update_on_chinese_gold_farming\">500.000 to 1.000.000<\/a> people are currently at work as gold farmers\/traders, making billions of dollars a year. With such an industry behind it, spam for MMORPGs like World of Warcraft isn&#8217;t going anywhere soon. And it will keep tracking down its target audience anywhere it can.    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_CpLRZdY3CsU\/Sh6izcJy5mI\/AAAAAAAAABE\/vLZiOucRAPI\/s1600-h\/Spam.png\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_CpLRZdY3CsU\/Sh6izcJy5mI\/AAAAAAAAABE\/vLZiOucRAPI\/s320\/Spam.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340885212722292322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months back I made a little post on blog comment spamming and \u2018splogging\u2019 in relation to World of Warcraft gold sellers. I was now reading up on the way that twitter&#8217;s social network is also creaking under the weight of spam. One of the ways to twam\/spitter (apparantly, the jury still hasn&#8217;t decided on that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2009\/05\/28\/lovely-spam-wonderful-twam-or-is-it-spitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lovely spam, wonderful twam. Or is it spitter?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}