How Twitter Is Making Its Spam Problem Worse

As Twitter gears up to go public, growth is a priority for the company. The short-message service is revamping its core mobile apps and experimenting with ways to get users to spend more time interacting with tweets.

That push for growth, though, may make Twitter vulnerable to spammers who have dogged the service for years.

The Spam Is Coming From Inside The House

One of Twitter’s growth-pushing experiments, @MagicRecs, recently won acclaim from the New York Times