According to Twitter, its war on spam is going in the right direction. After peaking in August 2009, Twitter now reports that spam accounts for just 1% of total tweets. I wonder you what Twitter’s success means for anti-spam services such as TwitSweeper, which is officially launching this week.
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I'm not sure I buy the "down to 1%" statistic. In fact, TwitSweeper's own experience shows a much higher percentage. TheDustpan wrote a short article questioning Twitter's claim of 1% spam here: http://thedustpan.com/2010/03/is-twitter-winning-…