How many report spam twitter

Note that I have listed some alternative paths to reporting based on feedback from wonderful people on Twitter. Also, on iOS apps I count a tap to scroll as a tap. I don't count moving the mouse on OS X as an action. This is the same as other Twitter products, like Tweetdeck they use similar web interfaces.

It takes 3 clicks on Twitter. Alternatively, you can right swipe the offending tweet and choose the User menu, which brings you to Step 3 above. Still, three clicks. Still, three taps. There are two ways to report a spammer in Tweetbot for iPad.

Only the first is show in the video. From the replies tab, you can report a spammer with only 3 clicks. Right-click on the offending tweet, choose Report Spammer, and then confirm. From the main timeline, it takes 4 taps to report and block a spammer. I tried this using the free version but was prompted to buy the paid version of the app when I tried to block the spammer in the fourth step.

Dr Twoot by Dr. The app is available on GitHub , so you can download it and give it a try. Toot, it says:. The one-click spam reporting is a recent addition to Dr.

Twoot added in February and after a reporting mentions are removed from the Twitter stream and the offending tweet is crossed out. There are different types of clicks or taps.

For example, the shortcut on Tweetbot to report a spammer is still three taps but those taps are all in the same view. It doesn't require loading new views or scrolling. The company revealed this information as part of its bi-annual Transparency Report, which it published earlier today, and which contains data from the first six months of the year. According to Twitter, "the average number of reports we received through our reporting flow continued to drop -- from an average of approximately , in January to approximately , in June.

The company says that this decline in spam reports shows "the effectiveness of our proprietary built technology in proactively identifying and challenging accounts" before they begin spamming. Twitter has been increasingly relying on automated technologies to detect spammy accounts before they start spamming. The company says that these tools have pretty high accuracy and that 75 percent of all accounts it flags as spam do not subsequently pass checks and are eventually suspended. According to Twitter's definition, accounts that attempt any malicious form of automation are deemed as "spam.

In mid-October , Twitter also published data from Russian and Iranian information ops, for political research purposes. But besides Twitter's struggle with its spam problem, the report also included details on the company's fight with governments around the world. According to Twitter, 87 percent of all user data requests came from the governments of two countries, namely Russia and Turkey, the same two who also made the most requests in Another area of interest where Twitter reported positive results today was flagging and taking down terrorist content.

Twitter said it suspended , accounts under suspicion of terrorism-related content in the first six months of the year. The number is down considerably compared to the 1. Twitter enables spam recipients to report the abusive accounts. To do so, visit the account's page and click on the head and shoulders person icon under the profile picture to open the drop-down menu.

Select the "Report for spam" option. This option blocks the user from following you or responding to your tweets. Twitter doesn't send a notification to a user when blocked. However, since that person can't follow you any longer, he or she may notice the change.

Twitter users may also report individual tweets for spam violations. Open the tweet and touch the icon that's a series of three vertical or horizontal dots to open the menu. Choose "Report Tweet" and then "Spam" followed by "Submit.