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TwitSweeper Sweeps Spam Away

By Mark Evans | Published: December 23, 2009
Twitter spam continues to be a huge problem, and there’s no sign that it’s going to disappear any time soon. This problem has created a huge opportunity for companies offering anti-spam services. For the past month, I’ve been using TwitSweeper, which examines your followers to see if any of them are “spammy”, and then lets you [...]
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Tweet Blocker: Tackling Twitter Spam

By Mark Evans | Published: September 15, 2009
For many people, spam has become the scourge of Twitter, particularly those who auto-follow to aggressively grow their number of followers. While Twitter has been active in cutting down on spam, there’s still a lot more to be done. So, it’s not surprising to see a growing number of start-ups focused on reducing spam. One of [...]
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Should You Block Twitter Spammers?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 19, 2009
In the past couple of weeks, the number of people following me has been steadily growing. While gratifying, it’s also become increasingly apparent that many of my new followers are spammers, who are happily migrating to Twitter from e-mail. Until recently, I haven’t bothered to block anyone because there didn’t seem to be any harm in [...]
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How to Cut Down on Twitter Spam

By Mark Evans | Published: August 3, 2009
There are growing issues and complaints about Twitter spam, and how it’s starting to dominate and clog up your daily stream of updates. Here are some tips on how to avoid and reduce Twitter spam. 1. The easiest approach is simply not auto-following people who start following you. Sure, it’s easy, convenient and apparently polite but [...]
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The Twitter Ecosystem is Being Neutered

By Mark Evans | Published: January 7, 2009
Truth be told, I love the Twitter ecosystem almost as much as I love Twitter itself. I love how the community has embraced Twitter, and created new and innovative services while Twitter twiddles its collective thumbs. However, I’m concerned that the Twitter party may be coming to an abrupt end. How come? The biggest problem is there’s a growing [...]
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Phishing Slamming into Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: January 4, 2009
Phishing has long been the bane of the e-mail world. Sadly, phishing has also made its way onto Twitter. One of the biggest problems seems to be the flurry of Twitter-related services in which you have to provide your username and password to gain access. Unfortunately, many phishers are reeling in big catches as people happily [...]
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