If you spend any amount of time online with Twitter you’ll soon notice that the service is seemingly over-run with hypsters, spammers and shameless self-promotion. Because of this I seldom visit the web interface and instead post mostly from my iPhone. To me Twitter is just a convenient way to autopost updates to social sites I use more regularly like Facebook and Friendfeed. Sadly, until now, there hasn’t been a convenient way to weed out Twitter people who follow you but are doing nothing but sending out blatant advertising. Twitblock.com is a free site that does an admirable job of sorting through your Twitter followers. The site scores them based on how likely they are to be spammers and provides an easy interface to block those followers permanently. In my testing the top 100 results seemed very accurate though as I moved down the results list I saw a lot of inactive accounts from users who’d posted once and abandoned the service. If your Twitter account could use a little spammer weeding – check out TwitBlock.

TwitBlock via MediaMemo