How to Block Spammers From Your Twitter Stream

While discussing the top 10 tips to improve your twittering, I had indicated that don’t make yourself look like a spammer. In real world, with shooting popularity Twitter has also invited the spammers to have a party. Well, if you are fed-up with the spams and hankering for a solution, here’s something for you. Hashrocket’s TweetBlocker offers a simple tool to easily identify spammers in the group of users they are following. This tool has been deigned to identify the spammers automatically. TweetBlocker automatically identifies the spammers in your follow list and allows you unfollow and block the spammers right from the TweetBlocker dashboard.

Now in case you went for auto-follow no surprises you might be following quite a few spammers at this point. TweetBlocker grade users by following how active the users are, and their ratio of of friends and followers. It also scrutinizes the age of the account. For more,  it analyzes the Twitter stream with Bayesian spam filtering algorithms.

The TweetBlocker dashboard enables you to unfollow and block each of the users individually or as a group. Additionally, you might hover your mouse over the user’s avatar and view their last couple of tweets. This would help you to ensure whether the user your are blocking is a spammer or not.

Twitter Blocker works well with Twitter users, which it assigns a C or D. However, there might be a few false positives for the those it grades as F.

Integration, APIs and Bookmarklets

While the websites are obviously the core of focus for TweetBlocker. It comes with an API for developers and bookmarklet that allows users to report spammers directly to Tweetblocker.

Hashrocket has announced that TweetBlocker will integrate with Tweetie, the popular Twitter app,  in the next version.