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Last summer while driving through Wisconsin I ended up behind a car that had a bumper sticker which said “I heart spam”. I laughed and said now that is funny. Of course the person meant they loved the food spam but by experiencing spamming activity all over the place online, that bumper sticker gave me a chuckle needless to say.

With regards to spam online, we’re always likely to encounter spam in some shape or form (other than food). That is because there’s people who deliberately spam and others spam innocently. The goal is to minimize or control it. Well, the great news is that Twitter is working hard at reducing spam and from the looks of the graph, Twitter is winning the battle. Yay~

Thank you Twitter~

Have you noticed a reduction of Twitter spam?

Watching out for you, one tweet at a time. TwitterWatchDog

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Help Twitter nail the spammers

We can now help Twitter conquer spam by calling attention to a profile we find questionable.

Click the “Report as spam” button under the Actions section of a profile’s sidebar and the Twitter 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. Once you report a profile it will automatically be blocked from following or replying to you.

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