Matt Hartley at Lockergnome writes that Spam on Twitter is increasing and “[...]Worse however, is when this spam becomes a trending topic within Twitter itself. This can be quite annoying, especially if happen to see the spam trending during some kind of crisis like an international incident or a death of someone famous”.  (full article at http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2009/07/02/twitter-spam-is-trending).

I agree spam, especially in the cases presented is really not only low class, but also pure speculation.

Control over followers could be a good thing, but could frustrate some people digital ego measured on number of followers instead of quality of content. In my opinion is preferrable to have less followers and readers but true and “aficionados” instead than having a lot of followers and lot of spammers.

So it’s circle: those with the most followers are more exposed to spammers but at the same time are also, mostly, those that cannot (or don’t want) to control followers.

This post also as a comment at http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2009/07/02/twitter-spam-is-trending/#comment-150761