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.