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Re:Should Twitter remove its follower count? by dschobel on Thursday April 16, 2009 @04:11PM (#565803)
Twitter could still use such obvious discrepencies (and does, I believe) to nuke spam accounts without the numbers being publicly visible.
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Re:Should Twitter remove its follower count? by mr_justin on Thursday April 16, 2009 @05:42PM (#565951)
But it's the non-obvious discrepancies that I'm more concerned with. I have no qualms about blocking people when their following/follower ratio is off-kilter.
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