Akismet Just Filtered Its 50 Billionth Piece Of Spam, Now Seeing 700 Spam Comments Per Second

WordPress just hit an impressive milestone today: it has now filtered its 50 billionth piece of spam.?Akismet, the homegrown comment filtering system from WordPress maker Automattic?is the tool responsible for all the spam fighting. And those spammers keep the system busy. In April, Akismet blocked 1.8 billion spam messages, or 60 million pieces of spam per day, 2.5 million per hour, or 700 per second. Whoa, that's a lot of spam.

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