twisp

Twisp is a Twitter Spam fighting Powershell script that searches through your followers and provides insight into the most likely spam candidates. Twisp first gathers a list of all your twitter friends and compares it to a list of people who follow you. Anyone who follows you (who you aren’t friends with) goes into a list of potential spammers. This list is further refined by comparing: How many friends do the potential spammers have to how young the account is. (If the account is only a few days old, but they already have friended 500 people, they’re probably spammers) * The ratio of their friends to their followers and the total number of their friends (If they are only followed by a quarter (or less) of the number they friended, they’re probably spammers) * Their bio to keywords such as “media expert” and “SEO” * If they don’t have a profile picture The index of spamitude is calcula