[hayley]

I have a few bots of my own that do weather based alerts (by state). They don't @reply anyone; they just do normal tweets.

What's so frustrating for me is how often I get slapped for spamming yet these quite-obvious @mention spam bots continue to prosper (I can never get a response out of twitter as to why I keep getting blocked; they just remove the block without actually responding to anything I asked).

I get probably 10-20 @reply spam a day on my more active account and it all follows the same pattern:

* account is nothing but @replies with just a link

This has been going on for probably a month and I've reported every single account that's spammed me.

If twitter can't figure out how to auto-block this obvious spam, it doesn't give me much hope that they'll figure out how to take care of spam in general.