So Long, Dirty Birdies: Services Target Twitter Spammers
This story is bound to ruffle more than a few feathers among would-be Twitter spammers and scammers.
According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, Twitter has begun quietly started checking the URLs that its users post — a security measure aimed at weeding out links to known malware sites.
According to online security firm F-Secure, Twitter “is increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking” and can easily filter links posted through it.
No official word yet from Twitter — a request from the WSJ went without reply.
In a similar move aimed at “cleaning up the Twitterverse,” recently launched resource site Tweetblocker catalogs and ranks the top spammers on Twitter, allowing users to quickly and easily identify them. There is a text field at the top of the page where you can enter a fellow Twitter user’s name to see a quick synopsis of them — the site offers follower ratios, frequency of tweets, length of time as a user, etc.
To sign up for a free account or to put the “report spammer” application on your toolbar, visit them at http://tweetblocker.com.
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