How to Remove Spammers from Your Facebook Page

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The only thing certain in life is death, taxes and spam.
If you are the owner of a Facebook Page and have allowed your Fans to post comments, photos, videos and links on your wall.. you can be guaranteed that sooner or later spam will start appearing.
Sometimes fans see this as a way to promote their own business by regularly posting links back to their own sites.
To me, too much of this unwanted and uninvited activity is spamming.
It is super easy to ban this person from your Facebook Page and remove all the content they have posted.
Here’s how..

Fan Permissions

Firstly you want to check what sort of permission you have allowed your fans in regard to posting content on your wall.
Login to your Facebook Page then click on Edit Page,


Under Wall Settings click on Edit,

The Fan Permissions will tell you the posting ability your Fans have,

You could just disable this option and prevent your Fans from posting content on your wall, but that would defeat the purpose of having a fan page!
The downside of having this enabled is the spam you will receive.

Removing Spam

Head back to your Facebook Page and click on Just Others,

All the content that has been posted on your Wall by your fans will now be displayed.
Once you have identified someone who is spamming your wall, click on Report,


Next select a Reason from the drop-down menu, check the Banning option.. then click on <Submit>

Then click <OK>,

The spammer has been blocked and all their content has been removed from your Page.
Simple.

Finally..

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By Matthew Tommasi on May 4, 2010 at 8:41 pm

How to use tweetscript

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Tweetscript is a simple yet powerful way to build smart tweets. A smart tweet is dynamic. It allows you to construct simple or complex rules to create database-driven tweets.
Whenever one of these dynamic tweet is tweeted, it will use the rules you specify with tweetscript to build your message: this will result in new, unique tweets each and every time you reuse the same message.
Every tweetscript command should be enclosed in [brackets].
When we detect that one of your tweets uses tweetscript, we include a little "test" icon that lets you experiment and see an example of the resulting tweet without actually tweeting it!
This feature helps you build re-usable tweets that let you customize and personalize common tweeting tasks. We will be adding more rules-based syntax soon. Please note, we are firmly against Twitter spam, and we ask that you read and conform to our Rules of the Road, as well as Twitter's Terms of Service.
Do not use our system to send duplicate tweets (or tweets that closely resemble one another). As we adhere to Twitter's Terms of Service, we require that all tweets sent through our system are substantively different. This means: do not use Tweet Spinner to send duplicate tweets. Fortunately, tweetscript offers you the ability to customize and personalize rules-based tweets. However, do not use our language to "sneak past" the duplicate tweets limitation by changing one or two words for each tweet. Please ensure that your tweets are timely, topical, spam-free, substantively different from one another, and enhance the Twitter experience for readers (rather than contributing to tweet "pollution").

Quick start

What follows is a very simple example of how to use tweetscript to make a tweet dynamic. Please scroll to the bottom to see a complete list of all current syntax that you can use.
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Twitter Tightens Security, But Is It Enough?

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Twitter began an effort this week in hopes of preventing the spread of malicious links through its service. Sharing links is one of the most popular uses of Twitter, but it is also dangerous since spammer and hacker activity has recently been high on the site. As a result, users are led to inappropriate websites and in some cases, are forced to deal with malware attacks on their computer.

Twitter uses Google’s Safe Browsing API as it checks for fraudulent links. When a user posts a malicious link, Twitter deletes the tweet and returns a message reading: “Oops! Your tweet contained a URL to a known malware site!”

At this point, the filter does not block malicious links that are put in url shorteners. However, some shorteners such as Bit.ly use their own spam filtering systems.

While security experts are pleased that Twitter is making an effort to improve its security, they also believe there is more work to be done. Nishant Jadhav, the Director of Product Management and Business Development at FaceTime, told WebProNews that Twitter’s tightened security could be a result of the U.S. Marine Corps’ move to ban social networking sites. He went on to say that the next step for Twitter and other social networking sites could be content-based filters.

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Twitter isn't safe from spam - yet

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For a while, it seemed as though the spammers hadn't quite cottoned on to Twitter. However, it looks like that's all change now. Not content with clogging up email inboxes, social networking profiles and blog comment sections, spammers have figured out a way to irritate dedicated Tweeters too - but Twitter is already busily searching for a solution.
 

Popular tech news site TechCrunch reports that Loic Le Meur - CEO of Seesmic, creator of Twitter desktop clients Twhirl and Seesmic Desktop - has proposed a "report as spam" button on his desktop clients.
Acting as a flagging device, the button could allow the applications to ban clients as spammers following a specific number of complaints - after a check to ensure that this is the case. There are already a number of Twitter applications designed to help users flag spam Tweets but so far none of them are attached to desktop clients.
 

Currently, spammers merely need to employ the reply to username function to fill the timelines of individual Tweeters with unwanted junk. But if Le Meur's button proves successful and other popular Twitter clients, such as Tweetdeck and Tweetie, hop on board, blocking abusers could be a significantly smoother process.
At the moment, Twitter asks for spam complaints to be sent directly to its spam account "@spam" and users have to be following the spam account to be able to log a complaint. While fully eradicating spam is possibly nothing more than a pipe dream, any step towards alleviating the problem is a welcome one - and a potentially lucrative one. 

If Le Meur's propositions aren't successful you can be sure that someone else will have a stab at stopping the stream of spam - maybe even Twitter itself.

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