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So you'd like to see some anti-spam measures?
A spokesperson pointed to a previous public statement in which the company acknowledged that users accessing the site via Tor may have to navigate anti-spam measures: "Twitter does not block Tor, and many Twitter users rely on the Tor network for the important privacy and security it provides.
White lists, and other anti-spam measures, led spammers to hack into innocent machines and use them as launching pads.
The company did admit, however, that it's anti-spam measures had caused it to lose three million monthly active users.
And that — as a consequence — tweets from those accounts would not have been very visible because of its anti-spam measures.
So, not only is Twitter pursuing legal action, it's using other tools at its disposal to silence the peanut gallery, launching anti-spam measures that, among other things, specifically target @mention spam.
Social networks already employ anti-spam measures in their own products, but Apple's is interesting because it would be made accessible to outside developers via API, as described in the patent.
Late last month Twitter flagged smaller changes to follower counts, also as part of a series of platform-purging anti-spam measures — warning users they might see their counts fluctuate more as counts had been switched to being displayed in near real-time (in that case to try to prevent spambots and follow scams artificially inflating account metrics).
So stepping up technical anti-spam measures on its platforms to try to slow the spread of viral fakes seems like the responsible thing for the company to do given the very real risks attached to how its technology is accelerating misinformation.
They have come up with new tricks to evade virtually every anti-spam measure.
This was intended as a temporary anti-spam measure.
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