Ask HN: Twitter and Spam

Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by agotterer on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @09:52AM (#703655)

Recently the spam followers have been increasing at a faster pace. I would say of the last 15 followers that added me at least 10 were spam. I'm also stating to notice more spam when doing a search for a trending topic. Hopefully twitter can get this under control. I'm not sure why they dont have a "spam" or "flag" button on @replies, messages and on the follow pages.

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by tjweir on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @10:14AM (#703701)

Send: @spam @<Account name of spammer>

Or you can directly message @spam

http://twitter.com/spam

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by jemmons on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:21AM (#703860)

Normally you have to be followed by someone in order to DM them. Note this is not true with the spam account. There's a special hack in the code to allow for this, so "d spam" away!

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by agotterer on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @10:22AM (#703715)

I'm going to town on my list. Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by raquo on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:18PM (#703983)

Funny - "Hey there, spam is using twitter!"

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