[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse: Too big to fail

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:49 AM ox <andre at ox.co.za> wrote:

>
> As I said: All ethical, honest and functional blocklists lists Twitter
> as a Spammer. - It seems that at least 25% do actually list Twitter as a
> spammer, and that is quite a lot. So maybe there is hope after all?
>

While I can certainly believe Twitter is a spam enabler, I did a small test.

I created  a new twitter account, but didn't confirm the account.

I cannot send messages to this account from my other twitter account.

So, I couldn't make twitter to facilitate email spam in this case.

I do get email from Twitter when somebody sends me a direct message to my
real twitter account. I chose to receive these notifications, thus the
emails are not spam, and it would be wrong of me to report those emails as
spam, even if the direct message is spam.

Question raises: does the user you were using as an example have a twitter
account connected with that email address? And has he selected to receive
emails for direct messages (or something else) in twitter?

Yours,

esa
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