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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.

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Great news: Twitter is finally stepping up its efforts to protect users against spam and phishing attacks. The company has announced today on its blog that from now on, all links submitted to Twitter will be routed through a service that detects bad links and prevents their spreading. For now, the service will focus on [...]

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Twitter recently added a “Report [X user] for Spam” link to users’ profiles. This makes reporting spam accounts easier than before – up until now, you had to report spam messages via a @spam direct message. This is definitely a step in the right direction – Twitter spammers, who mass follow users in an effort [...]

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