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No spam on Twitter?!

No spam on Twitter?!

By Tim Finin on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 1:04 am.

Can it be true? Russell Beattie posts that on Twitter there are nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls. Spam does exist on Twitter, of course, but it does seem to be less of a problem than on the Blogosphere, Web or email. Maybe it’s because that search engines don’t treat tweets like Web pages or blog posts.

Related posts: • eBiquity now on Twitter;  • Twitter Google Maps Mashup;  • On sharing a cell with a Twitter addict…;  

 

 

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