Imagine my surprise when I received the following email message today:
Hi, Turnip of Power.
Turnip of Power (d4lilr) is now following your tweets on Twitter.”
I did a doubletake. So I’m following myself? Checking the account of this person showed that they had already been suspended. In that short time they had managed to follow 13 people. Hopefully nobody was insulted by this imposter thinking it was me.
Scorned lover? Vengeful blogger? Noob spammer? Who would do such a thing? A little Googling of the name d4lilr showed I wasn’t the only victim.
Why am I being followed by kadiprescott (d4lilr)? Some dude has a spam acct w/ my name? Greaaaat. …_____________________________________________________________xezabelx: LOL @d4lilr is spamming using my name. Kudos.
No common thread I see between me and the other two people being impersonated. One was some innocent 19 year old girl from Singapore, not even a blogger.
My best guess: Seems to be some sort of random annoying twitter bot. Steals a name, follows your friends, then spams them. Stay on your toes, my tweety little friends.
So,the bigger you are, the more likely you are to get these freaks? Ugh! Sorry it happened to you Mr. Turnip. Kind of like Mr. Frodo, only more vegetarian.
I’m betting it’s a vengeful blogger who we all lynched back in EC days for fake contests and scams. Who’s next?
I gave it a lot of thought why and saw nothing in common. My best guess was one blogger from singapore who had sent me a death threat long ago. They attacked some girl from there, and their whole online personality is one big fraud. So this stunt fits right in there. The blogger you are referring to was American..
Isn’t that a lovely thing for the Twitter spammers to do? Hopefully none of your followers fell for the impersonation. I’ve been getting a few spammers lately up more due to the holidays likely. What I’ve noticed is Twitter seems to be whacking the spammers quicker.
I’m afraid I’ve all but given up on Twitter because I just don’t get the point. All I ever get is spam now, but I will agree that they do seem to be catching them more quickly.
There’s some strange people on twitter. These days I’m quite selective about who I follow.
I love to use Twitter whenever i want to know the latest buzz about my friends. I also use Twitter to know the latest buzz from famous persons ~