Hallelujah, thank you Twitter! As Facebook keeps getting spammier (spammier is a word I just coined), Twitter is actually taking steps to become less spammy. They are going directly to the source, and suing the companies that create software that helps propagate spam.
By doing this, Twitter is making a serious statement that spam should be stopped. This shows that Twitter really does care about its users, and wants their product to be as high-quality as possible. Twitter is going after five of the top providers of spam-related-toolery, as well as the people who buy and use these tools.
There are 340 million tweets posted to Twitter every day. That means that, even if only 1% of tweets are posted by spambots (which is probably a conservative estimate), that there are stil l340 thousand of these spam tweets, or spweets, every day. In addition to their legal actions, Twitter is also enforcing other security measures, including building in functionality to their URL-shortener that will block links to malware and other dangerous content.
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