Twitter Spam or Online Marketing

Spam is invading Twitter in a very intrusive way. Almost every day I get messaged and followed by bot accounts following and messaging me based on keyword searches. I see every reply, I get mailed about every follow. This results in a poor signal to noise ratio.

It’s hard to tell exactly how Twitter can stop this entirely, but a good start would be killing any account that is auto-posting the same message to every user. (e.g. LambLover)

The more interesting question is whether they should stop humans doing the exact same thing under the guise of online marketing.