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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by komali2 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:42PM (#16276322)
What's crazy is that bots are not violating Twitter TOS. I reported a bunch of fake accounts I found and was told they aren't breaking any rules, even ones just posting spammy links.
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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by petercooper on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:06PM (#16276549)
Well, yeah. If they're just tweeting and not @ing at other users, they can't really "spam" anyone since only their followers, who choose to see them, will see those messages.

Twitter does take a pretty dim view of DM and @reply spam though because it is genuinely annoying and not opt-in.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by Pxtl on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:23PM (#16277212)
Is follow spam targeted? Because most of my interaction with obvious bots is follow-churn.
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