Stop Twitter Spam

Have you noticed that you’re not getting email alerts for some of your recent followers on Twitter? Well, most likely those new followers are suspected spammers. Twitter has recently taken steps to turn off this email if the new follower is a suspected spammer.

This is a comment from Twitter co-founder Ev Williams on a recent blog on the Structured Thoughts blog:

This is actually by design. We have a flag in our system that disables email notifications when people trip a certain follower ratio (among other parameters). This is to reduce potential annoyance. We also then check these accounts and sometimes disable them altogether.

For most people who are automating mass following, their whole point is to get the email sent, so they will get attention and possibly followed back. But we realize this is not ideal, because you may want the notification.

We have a plan to put more limitations in place.

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