I've written some spam filters for twitter and frankly, it's pretty easy to spot in most cases. The bigger question is why are you following them? If it's pop

I've written some spam filters for twitter and frankly, it's pretty easy to spot in most cases. The bigger question is why are you following them? If it's popping up in search that's a different problem I suppose. I have noticed that they do shutdown a lot of spam accounts when I look back at accounts that I found were spamming in my spam filter at a later date. I see the results of them tackling spam, I guess there is a slippery slope problem of - what is or isn't spam? A lot of stuff is borderline like RSS feeds to twitter accounts? Bots that message people (twitter seems to have setup their own recommendation bot) for various reasons?