Twitter Gets Its First Commercial Auto-Spammer

The men behind Twitter might be busy finding a revenue model, but they can briefly halt their quest to beef up Twitter’s anti-spam mechanism to at least barely acceptable levels; its registration process doesn’t mandate a valid email. A commercial Twitter spamming tool, TweetTornado, hit the internet last week.

The authors of the automated Twitter advertising software claim that its users can create unlimited Twitter accounts and add unlimited followers. Its worth to spammers is obvious. Anyways, the effectiveness of TweetTornado is still unknown.

Twitter has to beef up security to repulse such threats to its credibility. It can begin by adding a simple email validation mechanism to the user-registration process.

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