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Bogus Accounts Dog Twitter
Fake activity, often bought for publicity purposes, influences trending topics.Social Sharing App Buffer Hacked, Temporarily Halts Service
Social media managers, take note.Facebook Scores $3 Million Win in Spammer Lawsuit
A small legal victory for Facebook in an ongoing anti-spam case.Swiftype Raises $1.7M for Smarter Site Search
Swiftype helps sites dynamically update and rerank their own content in search results.Instagram Suffers Weird, Fruit-Based Flood of Spam
Fruit photos as spam. How ironic.News Byte
Please Welcome the SpamBots Back to Twitter
A number of Twitter users were complaining today about a serious overload of spammy Twitter messages, a problem Twitter has regularly dealt with in its seven-year history but over the past year had seemed to curb. Apropos of nothing, users complained of receiving @mentions with links to diet-program websites. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.Twitter Wins Round One in Spammer Lawsuit Battle
A settlement with spammers ends in one small step for Twitter, one giant leap for tweet-kind.Introducing Livefyre Commenting at AllThingsD
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