spimmer

English

Etymology

spim +‎ -er

Noun

spimmer (plural spimmers)

  1. One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
    • 2004, Newsweek (volume 143, page iii)
      Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.
    • 2004, Larry Long, Personal Computing Demystified (page 225)
      Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses.
    • 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future (page 70)
      Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
    • 2012, Natarajan Meghanathan, ‎Nabendu Chaki, ‎Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology
      Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones[sic] of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless.
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