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Twitter has recently boasted on its blog that they have managed to seriously reduce Twitter spam and that spam now account for just 1% of all tweets.
While the supportive folks on Mashable were quick to join Twitter’s little celebration, pointing out that this figure is impressive since 90% of email is spam, I find it a little misleading. Perhaps 90% of email is spam, but – at least when I use Gmail – none of it reaches my Inbox. However, when I use Twitter, I still deal with spammers daily.
I’m happy that Twitter realizes how important it is to improve the situation when it comes to spam, and I’m truly glad things are improving, but 1% is still too much. I want none of this to reach me in any way, whether in direct messages, direct tweets or aggressive following and unfollowing. All of these behaviors are a huge time suck, and I’m simply too busy to deal with that.
Now, it’s true that as someone who tweets for a living, I probably come across more spam than the average Twitter user, becuase I manage several Twitter accounts for several companies. But as I said, I still have to deal with Twitter spam daily – several times each day in fact for each account that I manage – and this, to me, is unacceptable.
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I'm Vered, a blogger for hire and social media consultant. I create and implement social media campaigns for my clients, with the goals of increasing brand awareness and loyalty, improving search engine rankings and driving targeted traffic to my clients' websites.
