antispam

It’s no secret that Twitter’s ongoing efforts to persuade people to subscribe to Twitter Blue have angered many on the platform. Now, in line with these frustrating changes, Twitter recently introduced a new anti-spam update to its Direct Messaging (DM) system, which restricts non-Twitter Blue subscribers from initiating conversations with new users. While Twitter argues that the new anti-spam update aims to combat unwanted messages, many users question its true intentions, viewing it as a subtle tactic to pressure them…

Twitter is facing challenges on multiple fronts. The company is tied up in a legal fight over Elon Musk’s will-he-won’t-he acquisition. And earlier this week, whistleblower allegations brought renewed scrutiny to the platform’s possibly sub-par security practices.Now, the company is making some, seemingly related, internal changes. Twitter is merging its content moderating “health experience” and“service” teams into one new combined sector called “health products and services,” according to a Tuesday staff memo…

Spam is one of the many enemies of the internet, and Google has come up with a new way to tackle it — at least on your calendar. The search engine giant recently tweaked how events show on Google Calendar so that you’ll only be able to display events from senders you know. With the change, you’ll still get email event invitations from unknown senders, but they will only appear in your calendar after you accept. This means that only meetings from people in your same company domain, people in your contacts list, or…

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Monday laid out how the social media company fights fake and spam accounts on the platform.The information, posted in a lengthy Twitter thread, comes just days after Elon Musk said he would put his $44 billion acquisition of the company "on hold" while he researches the proportion of fake and spam accounts on the platform.Agrawal said the team updates its systems and rules "constantly" to help take down as much spam as possible, without accidentally suspending real people or adding friction to…