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Approving Followers To Reduce SPAM
I think we should all be able to approve users who want to follow us and also users should have to type in a CAPTCHA to reduce spammers who go around "following" everyone (ie. shameless plugs). I'm just sick of having to manually block all of these spammers who "follow" everyone.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I'm missing something, I think. What difference does it make if the spammers follow you? Why take the time to manually block them? -
Inappropriate?Debra, follow-spammers bog down twitter for all of us.
Let me add to the suggestion that twitter could include the number of people the requester already follows, and is followed by, to help us gauge if this person is real or just a spambot.
I’m tired of spam
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Inappropriate?Thanks, KC. I understand the bogging down, and I understand that it's annoying wading through the emails, but I wonder if blocking them accomplishes anything.
I agree with your suggestion about including follower counts, etc., in the email notification. -
Inappropriate?Fwiw... blocking counts for something when a spam report is logged for a particular account. As part of their evaluation of that account, Twitter support looks at the number of times that the account was blocked by other people. -
Inappropriate?Ah, thank you, mdy. That makes sense.
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Inappropriate?one BIG problem: how would i follow a new person over SMS/IM (if IM was working) with a captcha?
