Ping reaches a million, attacked by spam

Looks like TUAW is having its own spamming problem.

In any case, the Ping spam thing is being blown way out of proportion. If you're getting spam, just stop following the spammer. Ping is all opt-in, so there's no real "spam", just fake accounts.

Always had my music arranged in folders with loosely defined genre categories having name of band + name of album inside so I never used any library software and iTunes is used only for iphone syncing. I did upgrade to 10 though (nothing to lose) and boy was ping nothing to write home about. It's so middle of the road and promotes what every major label does in paid playlists that it's not useful to anyone that might actually want to search for new bands/styles. All the recommendations were revolving around the same hyped up so-hot-right-now numbers and it seems like it was all made up in a rush to ship without anything to make it stand out. And with 120 million iOS devices of which 45 million are iPods, I'd expect a lot more subscribers on day one.

You can like songs in your library by:

1. Clicking the arrow right next to the song in your Music library (in list view)
2. Once you go to it in iTunes (it's now highlighted) click the down arrow, near Buy, and click Like

You can also Post a song to your Ping profile the same way.

An extra step..for now..but works great.

Not everyone upgrades immediately.

I prefer to wait til at least .03 or .04 on any software.

The first thing I did after iTunes X installed iteself was to disable Ping. Do Not Want.

When can the rest of us have it, America? Social network for the rest of us? Bla...

Lol at first comment