- Twitter vows to purge spammers with "predictive" spam technology Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has vowed to counteract spam accounts with "realtime" and "predictive" spam technology that the company is currently working on. In a tweeted response to a spam complaint by Twitter user Peter Kafka, Costolo stated,
- Twitter’s latest DM scam; How to protect yourself and followers Another scam has become rampant on Twitter over the past few days, with a spat of direct messages being unlawfully sent via hi-jacked Twitter accounts. The majority of messages read "guaranteed. make $3,000 to $8,000 a month from home" or similar, and it's well advised that follow-through links within not be clicked.