I have not been quite so aggressive with my Twitter spam management lately. But Twitter has added a new hammer in the wack-a-spammer tool box. Yesterday as I was deleting a few "teeth whitening" TweeSpammers I noticed an extra option under the pull-down menu.
Probably a lot of us were asking for this simple addition and it's finally come!
Here is the post from yesterday on Twitter's blog called "Help us nail spammers."
I still love TwitBlock but now you can actually make a difference when you block these clowns.
If Biz and Co. would just allow us to see more than 20 followers/followees per page we'd have a real spam deleting frenzy on our hands. As it is, a great feature that makes it easier to voice your annoyance with the people and businesses that are filling our Tweetdecks and Seesmic Desktops with junk.
So, go fourth and report the spammers for spamming.
@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitter-reports
Catch all my Twitter posts here: The Twitter Way
October 14th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Great! Now.. if we can just get Twitter to add a retweet option in the stream. I'm one of the weird ones who primarily uses the web interface. Not sure how long that can last though.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Caution: Need to be certain you're not reporting a "friend" who may have been Phished.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Great! Now.. if we can just get Twitter to add a retweet option in the stream. I'm one of the weird ones who primarily uses the web interface. Not sure how long that can last though.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Caution: Need to be certain you're not reporting a "friend" who may have been Phished.
October 14th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jim – medXcentral, John McElhenney. John McElhenney said: Twitter Steps Up the Spammer Reporting with a New Action http://ff.im/-9PshO [...]
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:41 am
Well, fortunately the reporting process is more democratic. I block and report obvious spammers. Teeth whitening, 1,000 users a day… etc. Twitter.com has to decide what to do with the negative votes.
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:51 am
Makes good sense to me. I've reported a few myself.
January 23rd, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Well, fortunately the reporting process is more democratic. I block and report obvious spammers. Teeth whitening, 1,000 users a day… etc. Twitter.com has to decide what to do with the negative votes.
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Makes good sense to me. I've reported a few myself.