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Twitter to shut down spammy accounts

Twitter has announced that it will begin to shut down the accounts of users that they believe are generating spam, reports Jesse Stay. “Before today, Twitter would mark accounts as ’spam’, but not tell the owners of the accounts they marked them as spam. Those owners of the accounts could follow others, but no one was able to follow them … Today, Alex Payne confirmed on the Twitter Dev mailing list that from now on users marked as Spam on Twitter will have their accounts suspended entirely for violating the Terms of Service.” Read the story.

Wikipedia defines spam as “the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages.” On Twitter you must choose to follow a user before that user can send you any messages. As a result, there’s really no such thing as an “unsolicited message” on the service. So, what counts as spam on Twitter?

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