10.02.09
Service reins in Twitter spammers
- Social Networks, Twitter -
Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCO–A service that targets Twitter users for marketing messages is reining in spammers as advertisers strive to take advantage of the popular micro-blogging network.
TwitterHawk is limiting marketers to sending only a single message each to any particular Twitter user every six hours, according to a message at the firm’s website on Monday.
TwitterHawk runs a service that scours Twitter messages for key words and then fires off missives that are essentially advertisements targeted in a manner similar to Google matching online ads to search queries.
