Recent surge of twitter status updates in the forum

[abdus]

For the last week or so, a number of accouts have started to post status updates with (mostly) unrelated content. I've checked out the submission histories of ~20 of them, and none of them has a recent post. They were registered long time ago and made several status updates over time. I started noticing them after the last week's forum update. Something about it allowed these status updates to surface, and now around ~10-15 updates are posted daily, which is enough to flood the activity stream.

Is anyone else bothered by this?

These are from the last 24 hours

[kongondo]

15 minutes ago, abdus said:

I started noticing them after the last week's forum update.

You are right.

15 minutes ago, abdus said:

Is anyone else bothered by this?

Yes, and we are working to resolve it. You've been a great help so far, reporting the spam, thanks!