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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by Amezarak on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:18AM (#19115625)
I assumed Twitter did it. Why would someone log into my account and then do absolutely nothing other than set the location?
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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by rconti on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:35AM (#19115872)
why would twitter do that?
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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by vetinari on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:01PM (#19116225)
They needed to show some success fighting the "russian bots", so they flagged some unused accounts and can claim success now?
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