Stop Twitter Spam

Twitter Product Manager Jason Goldman provided an update today on Twitter’s plans for fixing the Track Spam issue.  Here’s part of that update:

1) Track is a feature that allows you to receive (via sms or im) all Twitter updates matching certain search terms. A common use is to track one’s own name. This is useful to find replies directed at you from people you don’t follow.

More info is here : http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=…

2) Currently, this feature does not respect the block list. That means that if you block a given user and they create an update with a phrase you track, it will still be delivered to you.

3) We consider this a bug not a feature. It is our intention to change the track behavior such that it respects the block list. I don’t have a specific timeline for implementation; it’s not an easy change, technically. But if we could will it to be so, track would respect the block list.