New spam reporting API now available

[Marcel Molina]

On the heels of adding a "Report as spam" button to twitter.com
(http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/help-us-nail-spammers.html), you can
now also simultaneously block and report a user as a spammer via the
API.

The documentation for the report_spam resource can be found here:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-report_spam

As the original announcement mentions, it's important to realize no
automated action will be taken as a result of a spam report being
created. So don't expect an account to be suspended immediately (or at
all). Also you can only create one spam report for a given user, so
subsequent requests will have no result.

Thanks.

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Marcel Molina
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/noradio