Frederic Lardinois’ article on March 23, 2010 refers to Twitter’s assertion that spam is not an issue. According to the latest data from Twitter, the percentage of spammy tweets per day is now down under 1%.

Here’s the issue. Our stats don’t support this assertion.

In fact, our numbers suggest that spammers are alive and well on Twitter. How do we arrive at this conclusion? In December of 2009 we launched TwitSweeper. Its only function is to detect undesirable followers (spam and spammers), identify them, and list them so TwitSweeper users can choose to remove and block them. It does this very well.

Here’s what we know.

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“Reciprocal following” is when you follow the people who follow you on Twitter. Sounds harmless, even nice. But don’t be fooled. Many problems are caused by this practice. Reciprocal following should be discontinued — here’s why. Read More »

We take twitter spam seriously around here. We often use words like spam, spammers and undesirables. And it always leads to the same question: “what is spam?” Read More »

Twitter is still in its infancy. The question is; could spam come to dominate Twitter to the same degree that spam overwhelms email traffic? I sure hope not. Read More »

Here at The Dustpan, we are striving to help you protect yourself from spammers. With Twitter becoming more and more popular everyday, spammers will try to weasel their way into our daily lives. Read More »

Google started including real-time search results from various social media sources (e.g. Twitter feed, Facebook fan pages, etc.) into its normal search results a few days ago. Outspoken Media began playing with the new feature and discovered some alarming results. Read More »

Bit.ly, the popular URL-shortening service and the default shortener on Twitter, announced that it is enhancing its ability to detect spam, scams, phishing and malware in an effort to disable any such bit.ly shortened URLs. Read More »

Here at The Dustpan, we are looking for community support on Twitter Spam. We will be talking about how to protect yourself from Twitter Spammers, how to locate and remove Twitter Spammers, but what about making sure you aren’t labeled a Twitter Spammer. In this post we would like to help you understand how NOT to appear as one of them. Read More »