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[louisgray.com] As an advisor, and as a SocialToo user, I have had phishing protection enabled on my account for quite some time, and the coverage of such attacks almost catches me amused, as I never see the ill-intended direct messages targeting my mail box. In fact, SocialToo tells me more than 140 direct messages to me have already been filtered, automatically.

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[Louis Gray's LifeLine] Louis Gray's LifeLine - Enabling Phishing Protection for All ...: I’m proud to announce that along with Friday’s new design and DM inbox launch, SocialToo has officially enabled protection for all 60,000+ users from malicious and phishing DMs that could lead to spammers and hackers stealing users passwords. Previously we had only enabled this for our users that were using the DM Filters found under “Filters” in the SocialToo interface.

[louisgray.com] Fighting Bots With Bots on Twitter, Leveraging SocialToo: SocialToo lets me block DMs that contain keywords or search strings like "Mafia Wars". I can either block those DMs outright, or have that person be unfollowed.

[Louis Gray's LifeLine] Targeted Following (Because Twitter Simply Doesn't Work If You ...: SocialToo was also the tool I used to help in the unfollowing process. I didn't want to unfollow all, but set up some aggressive filters to cut the numbers dramatically.

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