Stop Twitter Spam

As those of us who love Twitter have found out so painfully over the past months, [Twitter's] resources are not INFINITE. No, in fact, they are quite finite.

So, it is with these realizations that I have decided that I must actively block Twitter accounts which are abusing resources. This does my part in “cleaning up the system” and it also serves as a community marker (a la Craigslist) that denotes to Twitter that the account in question is one that should be watched more closely as a potential abuser. It also may give them a clue as to patterns, account names, URLs that are posted, IP addresses, etc., to help thwart abusers of Twitter’s resources (which in the end, affects all of us).

- Damon Clinkscales – FemmeBots and Other Twitter Spammers Must Die