While I can’t find anything about this on the Twitter blog, rumor around the blogosphere is that they have a new spam policy to prevent you from tweeting a bunch of @ names and a link.

We’ve all received those tweets. The ones from an egg like the one below. The ones that are completely out of left field and you know, immediately, they are spam. The ones that tell you, and six other people, that you can make $1,000 by clicking on a link. You click “block and report spam” instead and continue through your stream. They’re annoying, but it sounds like Twitter is taking action against them. Finally.

But what isn’t clear is what they’re going to do about the #FollowFriday tweets that are full of #FF @your @name @goes @here @and @so @does @yours @this @is @freaking @annoying @who @started @this @anyway.

Is that spam? (more…)