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I'd appreciate you taking a look at my idea and letting me know what you think http://gsfn.us/t/khp

Surely that would be done by Twitter themselves? If they notice accounts that are consistently being blocked, they'd make moves to add them to their spam queue..? – dmje, on July 28, 2008 15:59

Yes, but blocking them doesn't flag them as spam. These accounts need to be purged so they don't suck up database and traffic flow - which seems to be their primary purpose. The result is legit users have to make do without legit twitter functions and end up leaving for greener pastures.

I don't think new users work like that, IMO. I certainly didn't. And besides, the followee still gets the chance to ok the follower - it just gives a good indication of a likely spam account – dmje, on July 27, 2008 12:35

one has to be careful about simple solutions like that with the ratio - if someone is a beginner and is following a lot of people to explore twitterverse for later selection of the best, you should not punish his omnivore manners; best there are some individual restrictions in the settings (e.g. 3 grades of protectedness)

Mento actually has auto-complete and tag suggestions.

Try it by going to www.google.com (or any other popular site) -- you'll see that the Mento Box has some suggestions at the bottom: right now, I see "search google searchengine engine searchengines internet research web".

As you start using Mento and add tags to your links, you'll also notice that offer auto-completes for your contacts and tags. There might be a short delay when you just added a tag for the first time, but as you use them frequently, they'll surely show up as you'd expect.

Let me know if this isn't working for you.