sarahintampa

I never thought Twitter spammers were that big of a deal. Unlike with spam in your inbox, you can just "unfollow" and "block" spammers, you know. However, it looks like Twitter won’t be letting spammers muck up the community they’ve built. I saw the news over on Stay N’ Alive, where Jesse Stay wrote:

Today, Alex Payne confirmed on the Twitter Dev mailing list that from now on users marked as Spam on Twitter will have their accounts suspended entirely for violating the Terms of Service. He also confirmed that they would avoid the headaches Facebook has had (aka Scoble’s account being suspended) and contact the owners beforehand to let them state their case.

Jesse welcomes the practice and I do, too. Best to start young with a no spam allowed policy before Twitter grows to MySpace portions and gets filled with unscrupulous users.

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  December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Andy C
  Slightly overdue but at least they're doing something.

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