Twitter reduces spam to one percent

Twitter has announced that its war on spam has reduced levels dramatically since it peaked at around 10% in August.

The chart shows that as of February 2010, Twitter spam has been reduced to around 1% as a result of what Twitter describe as a battle “to improve the Twitter experience”.

Twitter has defined what they consider spam as “a variety of different behaviors that range from insidious to annoying.”

Three such behaviours are described in their blog post yesterday; “posting harmful links to phishing or malware sites, repeatedly posting duplicate tweets, and aggressively following and un-following accounts to attract attention.”

“Like it or not, as the system becomes more popular, more and more spammers will try to do their thing.” says Twitter.