Twitter Spam - A Pain in Our Twit

I've stumbled across more and more Twitter spam lately, enough to warrant interest in a blog post.

Mashable has warned about the growing use of Twitter spam, classifying the spam content into three categories - Twitomercials, Straight Cons, and Clueless Cons.

"The Twitomercials, Straight Cons, and Clueless Cons that are already here on Twitter are just the tip of the iceberg. Anything online scammers and cons have been doing on e-mail or the web will shortly be adapted to Twitter — and any other popular new medium that could yield profits. So in the coming year, Twitter will have a real spam problem. Unless they do something about it, these profiles and scams are bound to grow."

Blogger Ryanjin posted how he clicked a link or two and ended up at a site that was actually showing an AdSense for content link for Twitter, clearly a fantasy today.

And TechCrunch wrote back in April about two services that might help with Twitter spam:

"There are a few Twitter applications that let you flag possible spam, but none are tied to the Twitter desktop clients, like Seesmic Desktop or Tweetie. Topify, a nifty service we reviewed recently, gives you a more comprehensive version of the standard New Follower email offered by Twitter, by providing the user’s Bio, Follower or Following numbers, the user’s most recent tweets and the ability to block and unfollow potential spammers directly from the New Follower email. Twerp Scan scans through your followers and flags Twitter users who could be potential spammers. You can control the filtering options that determine who is a spammer (i.e. number of followers vs. following). But Twitter may have to develop or license its own spam blocking software if the problem becomes more prevalent."

What have you seen in your Twitterverse recently? Mention it below in the comments.