How to get rid of DM spam on Twitter

by seantm

I used to receive around 200 DM’s every day. The majority of them were auto DM’s, How to get rid of Twitter Spamspam, unsolicited invites to join a mafia family, slap a trout on someone, play a game, or take a quiz.

Exactly the kinds of productive activities I normally engage in with my free time – NOT. I don’t have anything against these games and I actually think they are great if they help people get more out of Twitter, but plain and simple – I wanted my Direct Message box back, as I began missing valuable DM’s.

I began to click the links and search for opt-out links or instructions and put together a short list of the biggest offenders.

In 5 minutes or less you can re-claim your DM box! Here’s how:

Auto DM’s

Most of them plain suck. People have not figured out how to engage people with this opportunity and worse they are being used by spammers to send DM’s for every offer under the sun.

If you want to get rid of automated DM’s its pretty simple. The majority of them come from SocialOOmph.com and here is how you can stop them:

Go to http://twitter.com/optmeout and follow this profile.

Minutes later you will notice they are following you back.

Send a DM to @optmeout – Send anything (I used the DM “abc”)

Go back to http://twitter.com/optmeout and Unfollow and you will receive a DM that looks like this

socialoomph dm opt out

140 games

Home to many of the quizzes, games, and yes, they have their own Mafia game.

Click this link http://lolquiz.com/optout

It will redirect back to Twitter and ask for you to “Allow LOL quiz access”

Click the allow button and your good to go.

Poll Pigeon

Home to many of Twitters top polls and another big offender of the DM box.

Click this link http://pollpigeon.com/optout/

Click the “Don’t send me any Direct Messages” button and you’re good to go.

Twables / FB140

Twables has a bunch of different applications but the most popular and annoying is an app that tells your Facebook Friends you’re on Twitter. When you opt in for this – It sends your followers a Dm that looks like the one below.Stop DM's Direct Message's on Twitter

After some serious digging and stumbling across a cleverly disguised opt out link, I figured this one out and found out how to remove yourself from their list.

http://www.twables.com/opt <—– Click here to opt out of FB/140

In 5 minutes or less you can get rid of 90% of the spam you get now by doing the above steps!

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well, at least 5 companies within the US are being sued for feeding this DM spam.

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The main source of Twitter spam comes from the abuse of malicious developers that have gained access to your Twitter account, here's how to check who has access to your tweets http://idaconcpts.com/2009/11/04/twitter/

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Thomas - Web Video Production

Thanks for this sean never heard of SocialOOmph before

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sean malarkey

Paul - it's not called spam when you opt-in! At the bottom of every email that is sent to you, there is an unsubscribe link - please do us both a favor and click that and opt-out!

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Paul

Kind of funny that I receive SPAM from you and someone named Lewis Howes. Still trying to figure out how to get off your dm spam lists.

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NewIdeaTube.com

AMAZING!!! just what I was looking for, thank you so so much :)

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John Komatsoulis

5 minutes was exactly the amount of time I needed to complete these 4 opt outs. This will save me a lot of time every day and will add up to thousands of dollars over a years time. Thanks Sean

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Iulian Ionescu

Very, very, very cool!!!

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Mommy D

FINALLY! I love you for this post! I am getting so annoyed with auto DMs. Getting ridiculous. I don't even read DMs anymore. Thanks for help us to be a little less annoyed! Mommy D

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Theodore(Ted) Sawyer

Thanks for the Great Tips! I've been trying to figure out a way to best deal with my DM's and now Ive found it thanks! Keep Walking with a smile Friend! - Ted

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Robb Bailey

Thank, Sean. My Twitter app on my phone finally gets cleaned out now instead of accumulating 58 1/2 spam DM's every ten minutes. Not only does it help with my addiction to the Crackberry, but it also lets me see who is truly interacting with me instead of just trying to sell me something. Love it. This one tip alone is worth your blog subscription. Although I've been putting your Twitter traffic strategies to use as well. Just last week a real estate investor saw my property for sale as I added her. She called me and we might close on the property this week. Definitely an example of Twitter turning posts into real leads. Awesome! Thanks homie, lemme know if there's anything I can do in return. You da man, Robb

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seantm

Robb - Thanks bro. I really appreciate it. It's little tips like this that can make the experience that much more rewarding. If you close that deal - shoot a video about meeting on twitter and post it back here. Sean

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Robb Bailey

Sean- Here is a link to the video I made. I can get you embed code for it if need be, just shot it before I ran out the door for the weekend! Let me know what you think, can edit/resave it for better formatting if ya think it'll help. Thanks for all the help man, the video speaks for itself! Have a great weekend, Robb

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Ken Hughey

Thanks for the DM info. I've simply been sending them to a seperate folder, but this is much better. Now if I get a DM, it's more likely to be something I want to respond to. I've also tweeted about your post! Ken

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Sean Malarkey

No worries - you will notice a significant reduction and yes - most will be real and worht paying attention to. Thanks for the RT as well. Sean

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John Kramer

I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for this. I read this yesterday and followed the steps and what a difference. Today I had about 90% less messages. I will start paying attentions now to my DM box on Twitter.

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Sean Malarkey

John - thanks for coming back by and leaving your feedback. It has made a huge difference for me since I first did the above 6 months ago. I cant tell you in that time how many "Important" DM"s I have received. Thanks again for dropping by. Sean

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