Pinterest's Spam Problems Are Getting Worse

After making a public announcement a couple weeks ago about its spam problem, Pinterest has only seen more money-making schemes develop around its potentially lucrative set-up. 

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Tweet Goodbye to Your Spambot Followers

Twitter's new war against spam will get rid of a huge chunk of your followers, probably.

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$1,000-a-Day Off of Spamming Pinterest Is Too Good to Be True

The incredible $1,000-a-day windfall one man named "Steve" claimed to make by spamming Pinterest users turned out to be just that -- not very credible.

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'Non-Humans' Account for 51% of All Internet Traffic

By one study's measure, slightly more than half of all the Internet's traffic comes from computers not being used by fleshy humans that might actually purchase products.

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The New York Times Just Spammed 8 Million People by Accident

It sounds like The New York Times just got hit with a classic case of the old accidental "reply-all" syndrome.

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Spamming Is a Very Expensive Crime

Yahoo has won a $610 million judgment against the masterminds of an email-based lottery scheme. 

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The Spam-Slinging Habits of China's Internet Water Army

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The Dirty Details of Facebook's Porn Attack

On Thursday afternoon, Facebook confirmed that a "coordinated spam attack" has been sending a torrent of hardcore porn and gore into Facebook users' news feeds. It's not pretty.

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A Breakdown of Where the Spam in Your Inbox Comes From

According to Microsoft's numbers, the biggest share of spam is for drugs

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Biz Stone Apologizes for Spamming His Twitter Followers

The founder seems to have clicked one of the spammy bot that plagues his service

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