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Re:As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is har... by meowface on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:07PM (#13576218)
Why should this be banned? It's not the same as spam, since you have to subscribe to someone to see their tweets.
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Re:As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is har... by greglindahl on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:22PM (#13576458)
These tweets leak into search results. Or, maybe you want to think of it as "Twitter allows them to leak into search results."
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Re:As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is har... by somedangedname on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:19PM (#13576258)
Not a Twitter user but: if you wanted to disrupt or derail ongoing conversations, couldn't that be done programmatically too? Or harass people?
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Re:As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is har... by meowface on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:09PM (#13576417)
Yes, but that's a different subject entirely. This article is just describing someone queueing up general political tweets.
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Re:As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is har... by r721 on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:45PM (#13576542)
>and “.@realDonaldTrump” in hopes of getting the attention of Trump or those who track messages to him.

He mentions Trump by username in some tweets at least, so that could be considered "harassing" (depending on scale though).

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Re:As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is har... by snowwrestler on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:43PM (#13576524)
Not if they @ you, which is what these bots do--which also triggers a notification if you have them turned on.
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