A quick update on one of our priorities right now: Getting rid of spammy followers.
We’ve recently made a lot of headway, including shutting down several large spam rings that were responsible for most of these spammy follows.
We’re always improving our algorithms to catch these annoying bots, but one of the best tools we have are your reports. If you ever catch someone spammy following you, you can use this icon to report them:
Not only will you stop that bot from bothering anyone else, you’ll help our team catch thousands of stupid bots just like it. (Easier reporting is coming soon to our mobile apps too.)
Even with twitter’s policies getting worse, I’m unlikely to post here more due to the fact that @staff never rectified the content policy changes that drove myself and many other away to begin with. That, and the fact that the staff here seems to have implemented an obnoxious pop-up chastising me for using an adblocker (not taking any chances with compromised ad servers lmao). If you’re interested in following me though, here’s a bunch of links to my online presence in various places:
