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n00b · 10 months ago

Found ur trick after googling so much! I'm gonna blog this and link to your post. Thank you so much.
Adam Fuhrer · 11 months ago

Ahaaa. Thank you for this Nick!
Alex Schleber · 9 months ago

Uhm, no offense, but isn't that what "block" is for? Saves your friends/followers the weirdness of the temporary "Private" setting. Plus "block" withholds your tweetstream from the blockee permanently, unless they go to the trouble of viewing it via Search.twitter.com etc.

Most re-follow spammers unfollow you automatically after a bit if you don't refollow (else they get hung up at the 2k "following" limit trap). Still good to go through your "Followers" pages (the recent ones) manually to immediately block (and thereby semi-report, though you can do more with "d spam @username messages) the usual suspects.