I replied to this on my blog: http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/mar/15/twitter-spam/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/mar/15/twitter-spam/ A basic outline of

I replied to this on my blog: http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/mar/15/twitter-spam/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/mar/15/twitter-spam/ A basic outline of my arguments: Hypertweeting/Notification Overload: Unfollow Hashtag spam: Same as real spam problem, just need selective aggregators that only follow certain people, or some sort of (bayesian?) filtering. @reply spam: True, but could be solved by clients, and the rate limiting on the api means that you have a low chance of being spammed this way. Plus it's really easy to systematically catch.