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Re:How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Su... by akkartik on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:12AM (#1601116)
Hmm, so they made their ToS looser around the time they booted you? That doesn't make sense..

I'm not sure there's any disagreement here. I'm just saying: I think what you did would require human judgement to kick no matter how they write their ToS.

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Re:How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Su... by hoop on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:24AM (#1601147)
It's not just that they changed their TOS. They also started to take a stronger stance against spam. In addition to publicly announcing "we WILL actively suspend the accounts of spammers" they followed through and probably beefed up their anti-spam staff.
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