Twitter Hammers Spitters for Repeat “Tweets”
Word from Excel Performance Marketing’s “little birdies in the field” tells us that Twitter is engaging in a new strategy to crack down on spammers, who have been dubbed “spitters” by the Twitter community.
The strategy involves banning repeat “Tweets” and recruiting users to flag bad accounts on Twitter.
The banishment of repeat “Tweets” is actually good news for those who follow the rules, using Twitter to offer up helpful business information on a regular basis, for example.
Regarding the flagging of bad accounts, Twitter says, “Click the “Report as spam” button under the Actions section of a profile’s sidebar and our Trust and Safety team will check it out to see what needs to be done. No automated action will be taken as a result of reporting a user as spam (in other words, it can’t be used to incite an angry mob against an account you don’t like.) And once you report a profile it will automatically be blocked from following or replying to you. You nailed it!”
Twitter promises that its spam-fighting tools will evolve as does the behavior of “spitters.”
One thing’s for sure; as social news sites like Twitter gain traction as Michigan marketing tools, the people who want to abuse those tools will never be far behind.
