This article was published on October 13, 2009

Twitter adds “report for spam” link to your profile


Twitter adds “report for spam” link to your profile

Spammer on TwitterEarlier today twitter launched a new tool to report spammers. Previously you could report spammers by Tweeting “@spam @spammer_account” and Twitter would look into it, or not. In the old system you could then Block that person too.

But that was an extra step.

Now, every profile has a “report ‘username’ for spam” link. When you click it you will be asked to confirm that this is really a spammer.

Lets see, following zero, followers also zero and 1786 tweets all in capitals? Yeah, I’m certain:

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Reported

After you click the “OK” button the account is blocked for you and reported. You can even Undo your action if you feel remorseful:

Blocked and reported

Lets hope it will get rid of all spammers.

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