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TechCrunch - You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial site called Teh Twitter Blacklist that lists 329 known spammers on the service (see screen shot below). That has nothing to do with Twitter officially and is just a public service.

But Twitter also has its own official blacklist. It is not clear how you get on it, but perhaps if you are blocked by enough members you get inducted.
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from NatashaRobinson 1375 Days ago #
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Now if only Pownce would start doing the same....

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from azieger 1374 Days ago #
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Do you really see the Twitter Blacklist site as useful? To me the snide comments as to what different follower/follow ratios meant smacked of high school cliquishness.Now, I have no problem with Twitter setting and enforcing terms of service that limit how people use their service. Heck, it’s free, and they’re paying for it. But these other guys make me angry (see http://whatmattersonline.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/twitter-spam-threat-leads-to-paranoia/).The last thing we need is self-appointed watchdogs deciding how we should communicate. And given Twitter’s user controls, nobody has to hear from anyone they don’t like. I wish people would stop hyperventilating on the subject of Twitter "invaders" and chill out for a while.

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from yojpotter2 1374 Days ago #
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This is good to hear..I just hope I’m not included on the list..^^ anyways great post Gypsy..^^

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