Twitter Helps Combat Tweet-Spam
By Anna Johnson on October 10th, 2008Twitter 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
