Twitter to Turn Law-Cannon on Fleet of Spam Cruisers
“Our engineers continue to combat spammers’ efforts to circumvent our safeguards, and today we’re adding another weapon to our arsenal: the law,” Twitter righteously proclaimed in a blog post on Thursday. Twitter has now let a precision-aimed, multi-payload lawsuit missile fly, directed towards five creators of programs that are responsible for the lion’s share of tweet-chaff present on the network.
“With this suit, we’re going straight to the source. By shutting down tool providers, we will prevent other spammers from having these services at their disposal. Further, we hope the suit acts as a deterrent to other spammers, demonstrating the strength of our commitment to keep them off Twitter.”
While we patiently wait for Twitter’s legal warheads to impact, there’s fighting to be done in the trenches by Twitfintry such as yourselves. By reporting spammers when they pop out of their twox holes to take pot-shots at you, you can help stem the ever-advancing tide of evil-doers. Or at least annoyance-doers.
The fight against spam on Twitter, and elsewhere, is a war that is unlikely to ever end, but hopefully the introduction of high-ordnance law-using can help tip the scales on the Twitter front. In the meantime, anyone know a good free iPad giveaways?
(via PhysOrg, image via genepensiero)
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