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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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