CYBERSPACE – After a particularly impressive set of bedroom maneuvers, do you roll over and go to sleep or let the Twitterverse and your Facebook friends know? If the latter, you’re among the 36 percent of social-networkers who post updates immediately after having sex, according to a new survey.Electronics site Retrevo.com surveyed 800 people about their social-media habits. Some of the results hardly were surprising — like 27 percent of people younger than 35 post updates to Facebook 10 times a day, and 64 percent of all users check their social media accounts at work. More outrageous were the bevy of responses indicating 40 percent update their social networks while driving, and 30 percent tweet or update Facebook while on dates.
For sheer “too much information” value, though, nothing beats the “tweeting after sex” revelation. The behavior is more common among men (big surprise there), and iPhone users are far and away the most likely to indulge.
The vast majority of sex-related tweets on Twitter, though, remain spam comments designed to direct viewers to porn sites, adult dating sites, escorts sites and other pay-to-play venues. In fact, spam of all kinds has become so pervasive on Twitter that the company has installed a mechanism that allows users to report suspected spam right from the user interface.
“Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable,” Jenna Dawn wrote Tuesday on the company’s blog. “Click the ‘Report as spam’ button under the Actions section of a profile’s sidebar, and our Trust and Safety team will check it out to see what needs to be done.”
In order to prevent users from employing the button as a retaliatory measure or to cause trouble for competitors, the blog also noted only one automatic action will be taken as a result of “Report as spam” clicks: The reported account will be blocked from following or replying to the profile that initiated the complaint.
“Our spam-fighting tools will continue to evolve as new behaviors emerge, and as always, we’ll keep trust and safety at the top of our list,” Dawn pledged.
