'Ask a Curator' Twitter Event Largely Successful, Though Suffers Through Spam Attacks

Speaking of the Van Gogh Museum, its curator, Axel Ruger, was a part of yesterday’s Twitter event called “Ask A Curator,” which was itself curated by the UK-based Sumo Design. While the event was largely a success, with loads of people chiming in to ask questions of the hundreds of curators participating in the event, Aol News reports that the whole thing became a bit derailed once spammers started seeing the discussion’s growing popularity. Suddenly links to Viagra were replacing legitimate questions, forcing the group to change their hash tag from “#askacurator” to “#askcurators” and then later requesting that people “Just search for ‘#askacurator -qwatmezix’ and the spam disappears.”