As Twitter grows in popularity, it suffers a corresponding increase in spammers. These days, your latest follower is more likely to be a spambot a real person. And as spammers become more sophisticated, it becomes harder to distinguish. Even the savviest Internet users may have difficulty to discern at a glance if a particular tweet comes from a friend to recommend an interesting article or a spammer lure you to click on a malicious link. These shortened URLs certainly does not make it easier.
Twitter did his best to stay on top of the issue. More recently, they have added a tool for the Actions menu, which also makes that quick and easy it could be to the mark a spam account. So next time a spambot follows you on Twitter, be sure to report it as spam instead of just block the account. The account will be blocked automatically in one step, and help eliminate spammers cluttering up the site with sales and summary links locations.
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