If you're tired of spammers and leery of Twitter attacks and how that may affect you, here's a cool solution, free to try out: TwitChuck. Here's how it works:
TwitBlock – A Twitter Spam Solution
* TwitChuck scans Twitter validating hundreds of spammers everyday.
* We block these spammers from your account, meaning they cannot follow or reply to you.
* We actively scan your friends and followers list, ensuring FriendChuck is as effective as possible.
Here's how this tool rates my Twitter account: PatsiBlogSquad:
YES: we recommend that you follow patsiblogsquad. This user follows the Twitter guidelines, does not spam, and is in general an interesting individual. (Aw, shucks ;-))
Highlights for this user:
- This user was created a while ago
- This user has a balanced ratio of friends and followers
- This user posts alot
- This user has posted recently
- This user has shown a lack of spam posts, terms, or links and will most likely not post spam
- This user maintains communication with the Twitter community
Score: 80
Friends: 2145
Followers: 2529
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Twitter had major attacks to its system last week, apparently geopolitical in nature. For status updates about Twitter, read here.