Block Twitter Spammers from GMail
— Last update Apr 29, 2008 — Installed 99 times.Adds a link to all Twitter invites to allow you to block them easily - works in Gmail or Google Apps Mail.
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If you're a regular Twitter user, you probably get spam followers - people you've never heard of, who follow you for no particular reason.
It's not clear what they get out of it, except the occasional follower herself, but it's annoying. And finding them to block in your own list is a pain.
So this script puts a "Block!" link next to any twitter username URL in a conversation in your Gmail (works for both Gmail accounts and Google Apps Mail accounts). Click that link and you go to the block confirmation page, hit OK and you're done!
Let me know if you like it, or if you'd like a similar script for other mail clients.
Stop the spammers!
There's a minor issue (caused either by Gmail or Twitter, I'm not sure which), where occasionally in a long mail thread about a direct message, a link will get many "Block!" links. All of them work.
