{"id":10055,"date":"2011-08-18T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/08\/18\/the-mabus-maneno\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:50:18","slug":"the-mabus-maneno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/the-mabus-maneno\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mabus Maneno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/skeptools.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/17\/case-study-notorious-spammer-brought-down-twitter-tumblr-social-media-mabus\/\">Case Study: How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter<\/a> for a rundown on the recent events related to Dennis Markuze a.k.a. Dave Mabus.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t agree that it was Twitter that brought Mabus down.  Yes, it was the medium, and a very powerful one at that, but it was carrying a very important message.  Those tweets could have been phone calls to similar effect, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thanks to Tim for all his great work on this.  This is an excellent work of documentation and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with respect to Mabus himself &#8230;. we play the old waiting game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Case Study: How a notorious spammer was brought down via Twitter for a rundown on the recent events related to Dennis Markuze a.k.a. Dave Mabus. I still don&#8217;t agree that it was Twitter that brought Mabus down. Yes, it was the medium, and a very powerful one at that, but it was carrying a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/the-mabus-maneno\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mabus Maneno<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Cb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}