I work on the Trust & Safety team at Twitter and hate spam as much as everyone else. As with any large system the solution is never as simple as "implement this

I work on the Trust & Safety team at Twitter and hate spam as much as everyone else. As with any large system the solution is never as simple as "implement this thing, problem solved." As Marco points out, what is or is not spam is a balancing act. Our head of Trust & Safety, Del Harvey, gave an interview to the Guardian earlier this year about this balance: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/07/twitter-internet http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/07/twitter-int... If you'd like to help us out we have several open positions on the team: Anti-Spam: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oBPbVfwg,Job https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oBPbVfwg,Job Tools: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oSbdVfwV,Job https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oSbdVfwV,Job Front End: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=owPbVfwb,Job https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=owPbVfwb,Job