I just read Andrew Hyde’s post about Twitter spammers and felt compelled to post as well in hopes that somebody from the twitterdome will read this (ATTN: Biz Stone & Evan Williams) and do something about it.

Here are the spammers who have started following me in the LAST 24 HOURS:

Angelina 1986: post deleted (this is a good sign)

Maggie1986: following 4,000, 3 updates

Angelina 1987: following 15 people, post says “I want to meet people” with a link to a spammy site that probably just put spyware on my computer. Ugh.

FuckGasPrices: Following 4,191, 2 updates. This could be a political statement but it looks spammy to me. Not testing the link - sorry folks.

I guess it’s not the end of the world because I don’t reciprocate with a follow and the relationship quickly fizzles, but it’s still annoying and something could/should be done about it.