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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by keyle on Saturday March 26, 2011 @09:49PM (#2373853)
We are talking volume here, right? This isn't digg mob style... My guess is that those 20K are spam bots?
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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by tpope on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:01PM (#2373888)
I doubt it. Spam bots are at the other end of the spectrum, with large numbers of short lived, seldom noticed accounts. This has to be about the Justin Biebers and Charlie Sheens.
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