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Twitter Tool for Nailing Spammers

14 October 2009

Twitter recently added a tool that let its users flag accounts of spammers at the world’s most popular microblogging service.

Hitting a “Report as spam” button newly added to the Action section of Twitter pages alerts Twitter’s safety team to check out what, if anything, should be done about a purportedly abusive profile.

“Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable,” Jenna Dawn of Twitter said in a blog post.

“Once you report a profile it will automatically be blocked from following or replying to you. You nailed it!”

Twitter opted not to automate the feature so it can’t be used “to incite an angry mob against an account you don’t like.”

3 Comments »

  • David@NottinghamWeddingPhotographer said:

    I suspect there is a lot of automated spam on twitter, taking a number of forms. They won’t be able to stop it entirely. Its like an arms race.

    # 19 October 2009 at 3:42 pm
  • Tracy@medifast coupons said:

    Just as spammers took over blogs trying to make money they are doing the same with Twitter. It is good to see that the network is trying to hold back the flood for its users.

    # 26 October 2009 at 7:17 pm
  • english speaking course Mumbai said:

    Recently I use to get loads of spam followers from my twitter account. I could not find any best solution to mail them unless the block follower option. Report spam is a great application from twitters end to nail the spammers and robots.

    # 27 February 2010 at 7:53 am

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