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Twitter Founders Accused Of Bending Over For Google

A bit of a Twitter spat erupted yesterday regarding Twitter making links on bio pages nofollow. Well, a spat would technically need to be two sided; it was more of a rage against the machine* with the machine remaining mostly silent.

How Corrupt is the Digg Home Page?

A top Digg user with a popular ratio of 34% has been getting paid well for promoting articles on Digg. His/her popularity has allowed numerous stories to reach the Digg Home Page, and when that happens he/she gets paid even more.

Report: Spam Ratio Depends on Address's First Letter

If a study by a Cambridge researcher is accurate, email addresses with less common first letters get less spam than those with more common ones.

Twitter Will No Longer Sit Idly By While You Spam Them

Twitter has never claimed to be perfect. In fact, their well-publicized downtime from a couple months back sparked the creators to acknowledge that they had a lot of work to do, to make Twitter the best it could be.

You're Getting Spam Because Others Are Buying

For many of us that spend a good portion of our day-to-day lives online, the idea that people actually buy products from spam messages they receive in their inboxes seems laughable. However, new research from security company Marshal suggests quite the contrary.The Results

Tagged.com: Spam Your Friends

If apologizing to friends, family, classmates, colleagues, acquaintances, and anybody who's ever graced your email inbox is your thing, then signing up with "social networking" site Tagged.com is the way to go. Or, you could tell the FTC the site's founder is still up to his old tricks.

Twitter Bug Torches Follower Lists

A slew of Twitter users posted this morning the disappearance of significant portions of followers and followees from their accounts. Has Twitter lost swaths of user data? Or is it the side effect of ousting "aggressive followers," who Twitter equates with spammers? Are followers worth much?

Psst, Email Marketing? Get DKIM Now

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), a synthesis of email authentication work by Yahoo, Cisco, and other companies, holds a key advantage for email marketers beyond getting mail to recipients.

Illinois, Land Of The Spammed

Among the top ten most spammed states in the US, Illinois edged South Dakota for the dubious first place rating.

AOL Spammer's Success Leads To Jail Sentence

Breaking through AOL's anti-spam efforts, combined with talking to the wrong person, netted spammer Adam Vitale two and a half years in jail.