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It's no secret that one of the keys to Twitter monetizing their service is charging businesses for a premium service. But now we have TwitFilter.

Twitter suspends accounts. Whilst the official version is claiming to reduce spamming - whytwitter sources show and say different.

Protect Twitter accounts from spam, phishing and other threats.

From the blog "Pardon the Information: The Fusion of Business, Technology, and Politics"

Topify, a simple but powerful tool, saves a lot of time and energy when replying to direct messages and responding to new followers. Topify also has an added value in detecting spam followers.

By Erik Qualman, Search Engine Watch, Apr 6, 2009

Clean Tweets is a firefox extension that removes selected content from trending topics. It also allows for stopping tweets from accounts that issue these spam topic (c/o BW).

Twitter spam bearing a worm virus is on the loose today trying to lure Twitter users into opening a malicious file attachment containing malware that could take over Windows-based machines, Symantec is warning. It works through a Twitter message that arrives claiming your friends are inviting you to join them and to check the attachment -- which is a ZIP file -- to find out who, says Kevin Haley, director of Symantec's security response division. "It's a new social-engineering trick," he says, adding the payload is Ackantta.B, a variant on the Ackantta worm discovered in February that has been used in e-mail spam attacks.

TrueTwit is a validation service for Twitter. It distinguishes between people and bots, helps prevent spam, and SAVES YOU TIME in MANAGING (BLOCKING) BAD FOLLOWERS!

This might be a solution for SPAM.