Twitter Spam, from “JavaScript teacher”
There is this guy “JavaScript Teacher” @js_tut (aka Greg Sidelnikov), who kept spaming us. This is the 7th time he spamed me. I replied 2 times before, asking him to stop, but apparently he doesn't see it or ignored it.
two years ago, he's struggling, no follower, and i saw him bitching about his marketing skills. Now, seems he has found marketing jackpot, by shady tactics. He now has 20k followers.
![twitter js teacher spam 2019-01-02 29391](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_29391.png)
Apparently he's using a bot to spam, posting some 10 message per minute, each post sent to about 14 people, with a link to programing question separate from the post, so that people who reply to the question won't see connection with his spam, and just thought a lot people like his questions.
Here's a short collection of his spam, collected from his twitter posts https://twitter.com/js_tut/with_replies This is 2019-01-02.
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 1c194](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_1c194.png)
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 e57b5](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_e57b5.png)
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 2eab4](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_2eab4.png)
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 5006f](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_5006f.png)
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 18267](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_18267.png)
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 f68b0](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_f68b0.png)
![twitter spam js teacher 2019-01-02 e3ffe](i/twitter_spam_js_teacher_2019-01-02_e3ffe.png)
Greg Sidelnikov sells many JavaScript books and CSS book on amazon. But as far as JavaScript goes, he doesn't really understand it. Lots complaints on amazon of his cash-grab books, and apparently many fake reviews.
His CSS book, titled Visual Dictionary of CSS , the title is copied from my CSS tutorial, at Visual CSS, which was named Visual Dictionary of CSS for a while. The name is from my Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves project, on the web since 1997.
Apparently, he got complaints from others.
![javascript teacher Greg Sidelnikov 2020-05-31 s766h](i/javascript_teacher_Greg_Sidelnikov_2020-05-31_s766h.png)
![javascript teacher Greg Sidelnikov 2020-05-31 c5w4j](i/javascript_teacher_Greg_Sidelnikov_2020-05-31_c5w4j.png)
Here's another complaint. If you search his name, or js_tut, you'll find some more complaints, as of 2020-06-01.
![javascript teacher Greg Sidelnikov 2020-05-31 ky5dc](i/javascript_teacher_Greg_Sidelnikov_2020-05-31_ky5dc.png)
as of today 2022-08-08, the twitter account @js_tut seems deleted, but run by a new guy, probably not related. Account created in 2020.
![twitter js tut 2022-08-08](i/twitter_js_tut_2022-08-08.png)