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Twitter is having all kinds of down time. I'm sure a lot of it is due to the system's use by spammers. We could ALL benefit by steps taken to reduce spamming on Twitter.

How about making it a bit tougher to set up a Twitter account? To make it a little more difficult for spammers to set up multiple accounts to spread their spam via follow?

For example:
- Require a verifiable e-mail address.
- Allow only one Twitter account per address.
- Prevent a new Twitter account from being set up from a cancelled e-mail address.

And then prevent anyone from following more than a certain number of people based on who is following them. For example, prevent a user from following more than 10 people for each person who follows them. Or only allow a certain number of new follows per hour/day/week/whatever.

Or maybe prevent users from having more than a certain percentage of tweets that include links. For example, no more than 75% of tweets can be links.

And automatically prevent duplicate tweets. Or the same link being shared over and over by a single twitter user.

And encouraging people to simply BLOCK spammers. Then look at which accounts are being blocked and delete the obvious spam accounts.

Come on, guys. Do SOMETHING! Between down time and spamming, Twitter is quickly losing its charm.