Stop Twitter Spam

Twitter’s scale problems stem from the fact that the workload increases geometrically as every message people send is forwarded to each follower.  The more followers people have, the slower twitter is.  The follow-spammers just increase that load.  Some of these spammers follow 25,000 people.  That’s 25,000 extra message each time any of those 25,000 tweet.  There are hundreds of follow-spammers, so that’s hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of extra tweets.

- /dev/null/kevin: Twitter Needs to Delete the Spammers