If you are a user of Twitter, then you are probably well aware of the growing spam problem on there. At first it was just a trickle and now it is a tsunami of spam. Internet marketers all churning out "I've made XX of $$ and so can you" tweets or "how to enlarge your (put anything here from a part of your anatomy to your bank account) over night".
I have an account on there and at first it was great to exchange ideas with other people about the economy or share views on online scams. Now I find it almost impossible to find anyone who isn't trying to sell something on there. That is until I found Twitblock.org which you can have scan the people you follow to see if they are spammers. Twitblock will run a series of tests on them and let you know their score. What I found out was the fact that many spammers will use the same photo and make multiple accounts, sometimes hundreds of them. Twitblock will help you find them.
I certainly hope that Twitter can remedy the problem of spamming in their system. As it is now, many people are not returning to Twitter and are finding somewhere else to socialize online.
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