After a malicious profile was found on Twitter which hosts link to a Trojan downloader the company is now working very hard to get rid of these kind of malicious and spam profiles from its profile. They are taking stern steps to reduce the number of spam and malicious profiles in Twitter.
Recently they launched a new admin tool that allows them to deal more efficiently with spam when they found it. With this the support staff can no easily review and suspend spam accounts as well as they can change the content of the profile to read like “This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity”, which will keep others warned.
They are also making use of community powered alerts, through which, they take note, when someone blocks a spam account. If more and more people are blocking that account they take these as feedback and acts upon it. This is good as suspending a spam account only works after is has already caused some damage and this will alert them with potential spam account alerts.
Also, as it says in the Twitter Blog, they are going to hire more people who will work only upon systematic identification and removal of spam on Twitter.They will work together with our support team, and our automatic spam tools.
At the end, however, Twitter is making a disclaimer that they don’t have a magic wand which they can wave or a switch they can flip to make it all go away. Its good that they are taking spam accounts seriously and are actually doing something to fight against it. But as they themselves said, what is the use of blocking an account after it have done much damage?
Website : www.twitter.comService : Micro-Blogging
Available Language(s) : English, Japanese
Location : South Park, San Francisco, California
Founded : March 2006
Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message.The service was started by Obvious Corp, and had launched the Japanese version in April 2008.
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