Recently the spam followers have been increasing at a faster pace. I would say of the last 15 followers that added me at least 10 were spam. I'm also stating to notice more spam when doing a search for a trending topic. Hopefully twitter can get this under control. I'm not sure why they dont have a "spam" or "flag" button on @replies, messages and on the follow pages.
Normally you have to be followed by someone in order to DM them. Note this is not true with the spam account. There's a special hack in the code to allow for this, so "d spam" away!
