End of TweetAttacks and others..

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As my main IM (blackhat) income comes from twitter, this shocked me today.

IDG News Service - Twitter has filed a lawsuit against "five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers" in a federal court in San Francisco, opening a new front in its battle against spam, it said Thursday.
"With this suit, we're going straight to the source," Twitter said in a blog post. It hopes the civil suit will act as a deterrent to spammers. By shutting down tool providers, it expects to prevent other spammers from having the services at their disposal, the company said.
Twitter is the latest among Internet companies to use legal action against alleged spammers. In January, Facebook and the Washington state attorney general announced dual lawsuits against the co-owners of Adscend Media, an ad network that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam, including through so-called "clickjacking." Adscend denied the allegations, and instead said it would investigate for the malpractices the affiliates it hires to drive traffic to advertisers' sites.
In a complaint filed before the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco division, Twitter alleged that some of the defendants distribute software tools designed to facilitate the abuse of its platform and market it to dupe consumers into violating Twitter's user agreement, while others operate large numbers of automated Twitter accounts, through which they attempt to trick Twitter users into clicking on links to illegitimate websites. Twitter's user agreement prohibits spamming in its terms of service, it said.
Defendants JL4 Web Solutions, a company incorporated in the Philippines, and its principal officer Jayson Yanuaria, collectively referred to in the suit as TweetAttacks, are alleged to have created a desktop computer program of the same name that enables users to automate the creation of Twitter accounts and broadcast spam messages. TweetAttacks, which advertises and licenses the software, uses automated scripts through which its software accesses Twitter's websites and services without its authorization, Twitter said in its complaint.
TweetAttacks has since March this year altered its website to state that its software is no longer available for licensing, but continues to support certain customers, Twitter said.
Defendants TweetAdder and TweetBuddy, are also charged with offering software for broadcasting spam, while another defendant James Lucero is alleged to operate websites that he promotes through spam on Twitter with the false promise to teach the recipients how to get celebrity singer Justin Bieber to follow their accounts.
Fifth defendant, Garland E. Harris is alleged to use automated accounts to spam users with Twitter messages that have links to his websites which provide online auction and payment services.
Twitter said it had spent at least US$700,000 in anti-spam efforts to counter the alleged wrongdoings of the defendants.
It said its engineers would continue to find ways to counter spam, including using its link shortener to analyze whether a link in a Twitter message leads to malware or malicious content.
Twitter has asked the court to rule on a number of reliefs including monetary damages to be determined at trial from all defendants for breach of its terms of service. The defendants could not be immediately reached for comment.
 
lets see how it works, just finished and put in use my twit spam machine ;D

gotta love my head and the thing that i do for money ;D 16 hours a day for 2 months working on the fucking system = autoprofit =)
 
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Don't just rely on just twitter to make money. Like Warren Buffett once said, "Don't put all eggs in one basket."
 
If they manage to shut the top 5, another 5 will pop-up, stronger and better.
 
If they manage to shut the top 5, another 5 will pop-up, stronger and better.

Not if they make an example out of these.

What they may possibly do is pin these up on the wall and put them into financial ruin to send a message out to anyone else thinking about messing with Twitter.

The thing is, I just bought Tweet Adder a few days ago for $188, and it's still working so I need to really get on my grind before they close it down.

Or do you guys still think Tweet Adder will work after this debacle?
 
Not if they make an example out of these.

What they may possibly do is pin these up on the wall and put them into financial ruin to send a message out to anyone else thinking about messing with Twitter.

The thing is, I just bought Tweet Adder a few days ago for $188, and it's still working so I need to really get on my grind before they close it down.

Or do you guys still think Tweet Adder will work after this debacle?

Hell no. That's like saying they're still going to let megaupload host files and re launch the site after the law suit has been completed.
 
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Hell no. That's like saying they're still going to let megaupload host files and re launch the site after the law suit has been completed.

That's not what I meant.

What I was asking is how the Tweet Adder program interacts with the Tweet Adder website/creator if at all. Or if once you have the program installed everything runs from the program and it doesn't interface with the Tweet Adder website/creator.

For instance, Tweet Attacks does interface with a certain server because now that the creator has taken that certain server offline people are unable to use Tweet Attacks. I think this has to do with the license system in the Tweet Attacks program interacting with that certain server.

However, Tweet Adder is still working so I don't know if it operates the same way.

I hope that cleared it up.
 
I wonder what will happen to Twitter traffic if all the bots will be out of their system??? May look like kind of self-punishment...
 
Another reason why not to register your company in the United States,not only can you be sued more easily but you have to pay higher taxes.
 
TA netted me my first $100 day. I remember creating an account of something like XBOX_Beta_Tester and using TA to send direct messages to people talking about xbox to test the new Kinect. I had an autoresponder setup to say something like: "RT to test the new Kinect" with a link to a Kinect email submit. The damn thing went viral overnight, netting 2,000 followers (Although some people didn't believe me. Original source)!

Now that I think about it, I really only used TA to send scheduled spintax messages to people talking about a particular subject. I suppose I could have still done that the manually.

With TA going down, it doesn't necessarily mean our methods will come to an end.
 
My TA just stopped working a few minutes ago. What sucks is that I've mainly just used it to follow and unfollow accounts to gain more targeted followers for clients of mine. I guess what I'm going to have to do now is manually log in to each of their accounts, do searches and spend 15 minutes or so following people.
 
yes, that' s mean twitter didn t find a solution about spams, so, they delete the source of spam, softwares.
Then, i think with a little brainstorming you could have a big success with spams. Because they are erasing softwares, that s mean: less people will use spam.
It s the same with emailing spam. They fight against spam but ... spam are always alive! less source, less people but more money for some people!
 
Twitter has a long road ahead of them. TweetAttacks documentation clearly says it's not a spamming tool. It's an automation tool. It allows verified users to automate messages they would tweet themselves.

Like any software- it can be abused but holding the software company liable for the way users operate the software is going to be difficult or impossible to accomplish. I imagine following their argument Firefox could be sued if someone uses the FireFox browser to spam a website. Chevrolet could be sued for the actions of a drunk driver behind the wheel. Smith & Wesson could be sued because a nut shot and killed someone with one of their guns.

Large companies have tried for years to accomplish this but very few are successful. I've owned TA for years and never spammed anyone. I have real followers and just don't have all day to constantly log in and tweet them. I set up my tweets for the week and go about my business.

The sad part is the companies have to defend themselves and that costs money. I hope they file counter-suits and take Twitter to task. At least demand Twitter pay for representation for blaming a software manufacturer for the actions of it's users.
 
Twitter has a long road ahead of them. TweetAttacks documentation clearly says it's not a spamming tool. It's an automation tool. It allows verified users to automate messages they would tweet themselves.

Like any software- it can be abused but holding the software company liable for the way users operate the software is going to be difficult or impossible to accomplish. I imagine following their argument Firefox could be sued if someone uses the FireFox browser to spam a website. Chevrolet could be sued for the actions of a drunk driver behind the wheel. Smith & Wesson could be sued because a nut shot and killed someone with one of their guns.

Large companies have tried for years to accomplish this but very few are successful. I've owned TA for years and never spammed anyone. I have real followers and just don't have all day to constantly log in and tweet them. I set up my tweets for the week and go about my business.

The sad part is the companies have to defend themselves and that costs money. I hope they file counter-suits and take Twitter to task. At least demand Twitter pay for representation for blaming a software manufacturer for the actions of it's users.

Though that may be true I'm sure Twitter had people looking at the TA sales thread where the owner of TA was assisting people to help build spam campaigns. That would help Twitters case in court.
 
I'm thinking of purchasing twitter-adder right now. So reading this information, it wouldn't be a good idea, would it?

Thanks in advance!
 
Though that may be true I'm sure Twitter had people looking at the TA sales thread where the owner of TA was assisting people to help build spam campaigns. That would help Twitters case in court.

not to mention the email sent out teaching everyone to create multiple accounts :(
 
My TA just stopped working a few minutes ago. What sucks is that I've mainly just used it to follow and unfollow accounts to gain more targeted followers for clients of mine. I guess what I'm going to have to do now is manually log in to each of their accounts, do searches and spend 15 minutes or so following people.


Or you can download Twitter Adder, which for the longest time has been the TA's main competitor. I am still looking for a solution that autoreplies to people mentioning a set of keywords around a location. There are many that autoreply, but for local businesses it does not much to promote to people in other countries.
 
I bought another traffic generator in regards to the TA going down. There are many out there that aren't doing things legit, but then there are many that are just using this as a way to auto run parts of their jobs.

Just need to be careful obviously & if you aren't doing anything wrong, then go about your business. When things shut down though. Get a refund!
 
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