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		<title>What&#8217;s Up With Twitter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past weekend when I was on Twitter, I noticed that my tweets were the only ones to show up in my Twitter client Twhirl. I didn’t pay any attention until last night. I’m usually being bombarded with the same people tweeting about a bunch of junk. I lost all my followers and all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the past weekend when I was on <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000484d119" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>, I noticed that my tweets were the only ones to show up in my Twitter client <a class="zem_slink" title="Twhirl" rel="homepage" href="http://www.twhirl.org">Twhirl</a>.  I didn’t pay any attention until last night.  I’m usually being bombarded with the same people tweeting about a bunch of junk.  I lost all my followers and all the people I was following.  I don&#8217;t know if it was a glitch or what was going on.  Over in the help forums, there were a lot of other users that were experiencing the same problems.  <span id="more-431"></span></p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, Twitter has the potential to drive traffic to a site and a person can make money too.  For instance, I sent out a tweet about giving away a Netbook and in about a ten-minute period, I had 200 new visitors to my site.  I am sick of seeing the same tweets repeatedly from the same users.  One tweet is see how <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000002a88b7" title="Cathy (comic strip)" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352235/">Cathy</a> turned her teeth from yellow to white in 30 days or something along those lines.  I see this one from tons of my followers and from whom I am following.</p>
<p>Another is the one from sofa.tv.  This one is annoying because there is one person that just uses the sofa.tv tweet and it’s tweeted about every three minutes.  I know what you’re thinking, (why doesn’t he just block the tweeter).  To be honest, I have not got around to deleting any of the followers.</p>
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<p>I think that Twitter might be overrun with spammers trying to make a quick buck or two.  I think I am going to create a new account strictly for the blog and delete my old one.  This time I will not tolerate users who are <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003830a" title="Spam (electronic)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29">spamming</a> and push my tweets out of the way.</p>
<p>Is it time to get a new Twitter account?  Should I just wait until my account gets fixed?  Or, should Twitter be out of the question?  I appreciate everyone&#8217;s feedback on this.<br />
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