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Re:The earthquake that killed Twitter? Spam makes the utilit... by gaius on Monday June 13, 2011 @04:41AM (#2648487)
At least one of those isn't true, my "work" Twitter account is mainly links and a short comment from me for example. Each of your criteria only affects the probability than an account is a spammer. E.g. you could easily organize a campaign of "spam report" on a hated celebrity, politician, whoever and get them booted.
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Re:The earthquake that killed Twitter? Spam makes the utilit... by hopeless on Monday June 13, 2011 @06:56AM (#2648644)
Your work twitter account tweets the same link over and over again? That's pretty odd and frankly doesn't sound like a good use of twitter.

But @-replying or tweeting the same link to different hashtags? Spam, spam, spam!

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Re:The earthquake that killed Twitter? Spam makes the utilit... by gaius on Monday June 13, 2011 @08:05AM (#2648746)
No, of course not! But one of your criteria was a link in every tweet.
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