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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by chatmasta on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:28PM (#16278520)
How is what you are describing any different from sponsored tweets?
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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by ErikAugust on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:30PM (#16278817)
You don't have to follow a bot, so you will never see their tweets in your timeline. You can't remove a sponsored tweet from your timeline.
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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by sbtrct on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:50AM (#16280440)
I haven't used an official Twitter client for a while, but you certainly used to be able to block the account making a sponsored tweet, which will remove it from your timeline.
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