Stop Twitter Spam

We’ve been waiting a long time for improvements to Twitter’s New Follower email.  Some people got tired of waiting and started using third-party notification services such as Topify.  I’m happy to report that Twitter has just rolled out a new & improved version of this email.  It’s not perfect yet but it’s a definitely a huge step forward.

Here’s the old version of the New Follower email.

As you can see, the information was limited and you had to click through to the profile to see useful information such as the profile photo, following/following stats, and number of updates.

Here’s the new version.

It looks much better and now you can get a pretty good feel for who the new follower is without having to click through to their profile.  I really like that you can block spammers directly from the email.  I’d also like to see a few other things: Bio text, location, a Follow link, the last 5 tweets, the tweet frequency (e.g. 7 tweets per day), and how long the person has been on Twitter.

Update:

@TwitSpamOrg points out that the User ID of the new follower is not shown very prominently in the new version of the email.  This makes it harder to spot people who are impersonating other people on Twitter.  Hopefully they’ll add this back in.