Stop Twitter Spam

At a time when VC’s are telling their portfolio companies to cut engineers when the product is “ready”, Twitter is planning to add a new engineer to fight spam.  Twitter co-founder Ev Williams tweeted about this the other day…

Twitter looking to hire spam engineer: http://bit.ly/spameng Someone from a big search engine or email company would be cool. Know anyone?

This follows the hiring of a “spam marshall” back in August.  This job posting is another sign that Twitter is maturing as a business and is using it’s VC funding wisely.  And it’s a refreshing move by a company who seems to understand that cutting engineers when your product is “ready” is a short-sighted move that will hurt you in the long run.