It’s still fashionable to explain why (random internet company) is going downhill, right? Here’s why Twitter sucks. They have a spam problem and they’re not doing anything about it.

I occasionally search twitter for OpenBSD. Unfortunately, it’s been taken over by ad bots. Is it necessary to do the realtime search? Often times, yes. Otherwise Twitter tends to keep showing me the same set of tweets from last week over and over.

Exhibit 1:

How can Twitter not detect bullshit accounts like this? You can try reporting them, which I have, but obviously that has had no effect.

For more giggles, exhibit 2:

When the name of the account even includes the word spam, surely that must be a hint?

Update

Twitter does have a spam filter! After posting this tweet I was notified I was posting too much spam and my account was locked.

Hi Ted Unangst,

Your account appears to have exhibited automated behavior that violates the Twitter Rules.

Nothing to worry about. Twitter’s spam team is on the ball.