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Fight Twitter spammers with Tweet Blocker

Spam is a growing problem on Twitter, and there's not much an individual user can do about it. Finding and blocking all the spammers amongst your followers can be a tedious and time-consuming process. Fortunately, Tweet Blocker makes it easy, and offers a way to quickly unfollow and block any spammers.

Using a spam filter algorithm based on user recommendations, Tweet Blocker gives your followers a grade from A to F, based on their level of spamminess. This you gives you a quick way to locate the spammers, and then you can use Tweet Blocker's convenient block and unfollow buttons to take appropriate action. You can also see the recent tweets from any account on the list, in case you're not sure at a glance whether someone's a spammer or not.

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