Twitter enlists users to help fight spam
Twitter has added a “Report as spam” feature to its service in an effort to get help from its users in fighting spam, the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday . “Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable,” a company representative wrote.
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Twitter enlists users to help fight spam
As much as I want to say that this newest feature is a nice thing, I can already see the potential for it to be abused and used as a weapon against others. Especially using it as a weapon to silence opposition or one’s own opinion.
One has to wonder what took Twitter so long to [attempt to] do something about the spam robots? I don’t think it will stop the spam drones. Spammers always manage to get around filtering obstacles. It’s like trying to get rid of a roach nest.
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14 Oct 09 at 2:53 pm