Twitter users can now report spammers with one click
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Many of you reading this will be Twitter users, and so you will already know that the whole microblogging experience can sometimes be spoiled by followers which you really don’t want - spammers.
They could be offering anything, and they usually do - although the majority of the time it seems to be nubile young ladies asking you to click on their link for a dating websites.
Well, Twitter has put in a new feature which will hopefully make a big difference - a one click option to report a questionable profile as being spam.
Under the sidebar at the right of a Twitter profile, you will see a button where you will be able to report the offending profile as being spam - happily named ‘report [user] as spam’.
Twitter says that this will bring the profile to the attention of a ‘Trust and Safety’ team who check out what needs to be done, while the profile will be automatically be blocked from following or replying to you.
Twitter emphasised that this is not an automated response, so it can’t be used to bring the ‘force of Twitter doom’ on an account which you might just not like.
This is an important step by Twitter, as the increasing amount of spam accounts was beginning to spoil the whole user experience. Hopefully people will also use this wisely, and get rid of the spam accounts which really need to be deleted.
Also Twitter apps will also be soon designed with some sort of spam filter in mind too, because this is where many people pick up, read and reply to tweets rather than the Twitter website.
If the compromised accounts were strangled at birth, then we may less see incidents of worms propagating or links to phishing sites after our details.
Rated: 60% (1 votes)
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