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Twitter Helps Combat Tweet-Spam

By Anna Johnson on October 10th, 2008

Twitter has created a ’spam’ user account for its users to direct spam complaints.

To report spam from someone, you simply follow ‘@spam’ and send it a direct message with the username of your spammer. You can also send such messages from your mobile phone or use a public tweet.

Source: Mark Hendrickson, “Fight Spam With A Direct Message To Twitter”, TechCrunch, October 6, 2008

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