After years of cat and mouse battles between Twitter’s engineers and bot developers always finding new ways to circumvent security, Twitter has decided that enough is enough and is taking the spammers to court.
The lawsuits were filed Thursday morning and a official blog post followed shortly after. The suits were filed in San Fransisco and target “five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers”.
While the blog post doesn’t give any names, Venturebeat has been able to confirm the names of the targets appearently in an email with Twitter.
The first of the five defendants: Tweet Attacks, has already pulled the software and ceased in selling new licenses.
Tweet Attacks's Homepage
Other defendants include:
- TweetBuddy
- TweetAdder
- James Lucero
- Garland Harris
It’s early days, but this round of lawsuits is certain to cause some reduction in spam on Twitter.