But the Exchange Owners who commented at Netmarketingforum.com thread seem to regard Twitter spam merely as a problem facing individuals using Twitter.

Twitter does not think that way.

Fred Wilson, sits on the board of Twitter. he is also VC of Union Square Ventures, a firm providing funding for Twitter. Fred says the value of the Twitter lies in passed links. We already know that, don’t we?

He also recently talked about how Twitter is developing algorithms to determine whether a passed link is spam or not.

Here is the rub, Twitter could prevent people spamming links by considering any link to some domains as spam. That would prevent all members and the owners from using Twitter to market their traffic exchanges. Twitter could also truncate links and put an end to all members tossing out links.

I am sure you would agree, either solution is bad, wouldn’t you?

That’s why I presented a possible solution owners could use to police members. Most traffic exchanges don’t allow email spam, why allow social spam?

Fred Wilson Speaks on The Power of Passed Links and Earned Media at the 140 character conference – day 1

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