Twitter Sputters Over Spammers and Spitters

Twitter has introduced a “report as spam” button so users can identify junk tweets to admins. The activity Twitter wants to stamp out, though, isn’t exactly the same as the junk you want to keep out of your email in-box. The Twitter equivalent is the “spitter” — users with botnets that create fake Twitter profiles, auto-follow users in order to get them to follow back, and spew out things like porn-related links.

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