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How Much Twitter is There?

By Mark Evans | Published: April 1, 2010
You know those accident scenes where everyone crowds around to see what’s happening only to be told by the police “Move along, there’s nothing interesting happening here”? Well, Twitter’s recent assertions that spam has been dealt a massive defeat is eerily similar. According to Twitter, spam has dropped to less than 1% due, in part, to [...]
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Twitter Winning War on Spam

By Mark Evans | Published: March 24, 2010
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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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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