blocking spammers on twitter

[raffi at flossyourmind.com (Raffi Jamgotchian)]

I think most of those guys follow because many follow reciprocally and  
thus are targets.

On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Robin Wood wrote:

> Hi
> I've just passed 100 followers on twitter, most are legit but I know
> that some are spammers. Is it worth blocking the spammers or should I
> just leave them?
>
> I'm trying to work out what benefits a spammer can get by following
> me, the obvious one is that I blindly follow him back and then receive
> his spam, is there anything beyond that? Is there any indication that
> one spammer will look at anothers list and follow the same people?
>
> Really I supposed I'm trying to work out the twitter spam business  
> model .
>
> Robin
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