Social Media Spam Jumped 355% In First Half Of 2013 [REPORT]

A new report has unveiled social media’s continuing problem with spam, with clear and worrying trends in the numbers of spammers and spam messages being posted to the top networks very much on the rise.

Indeed, the first half of 2013 saw an eye-opening 355 percent growth of social spam, with one in every seven comments made on social media sites now containing these unwanted solicitations.

Nexgate‘s State of Social Media Spam Report analysed 60 million pieces of unique content sent from 25 million social accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn between 2011 and 2013, making the following key discoveries:

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