Are You Followed by Twitter Spammers?

Filed as News on April 28, 2008 1:34 am

by Thord Daniel Hedengren

Download Squad profiles Twerp Scan, a nice little application that checks your followers to see if there are any known spammers there. Personally, I wonder why Twitter is so quiet about the fact that there’s a, probably great, number of spammers perusing Twitter and luring users into their scams.

Check out the post, and then check out Twitter Twerp Scan.

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  1. By Andy Merrett posted on April 29, 2008 at 1:12 am
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    Yes, definitely, but I don’t automatically follow everyone back, so it probably doesn’t do much harm. I can pretend I’m popular even if I’m not :)

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