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Since its inception in 2006 Twitter shot to prominence in the world of social media and quickly opened up a new world of communication for people worldwide. Suddenly, it was all the rage to ask and find out the answer to the question “What are you doing?”

To some it seemed kind of lame but to others it showed the infinite possibility of real time communication in 140 characters or less. Unforgettable events like the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks and the Hudson Rive Plane Landing have shown us all how powerful Twitter can actually be.

Unfortunately, for all of the potential that has been manifested in Twitter (and surely there is plenty more that has yet to be discovered) there lies a dark and seedy underbelly. It is populated by some of the lowest forms of life known to man. You know them as Twitter spammers.

Spam on Twitter has gotten completely out of control. There is just no other way to describe it. When was the last time you have managed to go a day without being hit up with the latest way to “gain thousands of More >