I’ll be completely honest, I love Twitter, but with one caveat, the spamming and Twitter has become spam-tastic. Just for the record I don’t gamble, model, rent stuff, need stuff or have any interest in acquiring such tastes. So if such Twitter members could please refrain from following me, it would be greatly appreciated.

Clearly I’m not the only one who thinks so, Stop Twitter Spam. Not only am I being inundated with Christmas catalogues (such an unfortunate waste), but also being spammed big time via Twitter. The good news is that Twitter has recognized the issue and with a little effort we can all help to clean up the clutter,  making Twitter a happy , spam-free place once again.

Twitter Blog: An Ongoing Battle

Posting links to Twitter is great and we encourage people to do so. However, spammers are posting links on a whole different scale and they’re doing something else we call Aggressive Following. This behavior entails following thousands of other accounts in the hope of reciprocation and it really peeves Twitter users because many of us are sensitive to our Follower count—we don’t want email notifications triggered by spammers and we don’t want to see our avatar on their profile page.

Those who have created thousands of accounts, posted thousands of the same link, or aggressively followed way too many people, stand out like a sore thumb to our support team because they are usually blocked by hundreds or thousands of well behaved Twitter users. This simple feedback is one of the ways we detect and delete spam accounts but there are also preventative measures and more we could be doing