If you've been watching Twitter closely, you've probably noticed that Twitter spam isn't quite as bad as it used to be. Since the company launched serious anti-spam features that help users identify and report spammers, the folks over at the world's largest microblogging platform have been working overtime to flag and remove spammy accounts. That being said, let's be frank - the problem of Twitter spam remains just that: a problem.

We've seen spam in all flavors and colors, and we've managed to narrow the problem down to the five nastiest flavors of Twitter spam....

Just about everyone who uses Twitter for any extended period of time has wondered about how to get more Twitter followers. It's kind of the name of the game for most people - if you don't have any Twitter followers, you tend to feel like no one's really listening to what you have to say. There's a variety of strategies to gain more Twitter followers, many of which we've discussed here on Twittown. Today we're going to take a look at one strategy in particular - the auto-follow, and take a hard look at the pros and cons of auto-following on Twitter.

I’ve been screaming for months now that Twitter needs a solid third-party application with brilliant heuristics to combat the constantly-growing problem with Twitter spam. When I saw a flurry of articles on major tech blogs this week about a new application called TweetBlocker that claims to be that third-party application, I got pretty excited. The first time I visited TweetBlocker, the application authorized my Twitter account and then promptly informed me that due to a huge spike in recent traffic, the service was currently down.

Not to be deterred, I waited a day and then...