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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by tjweir on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @10:14AM (#703701)
Send: @spam @<Account name of spammer>

Or you can directly message @spam

http://twitter.com/spam

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by jemmons on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:21AM (#703860)
Normally you have to be followed by someone in order to DM them. Note this is not true with the spam account. There's a special hack in the code to allow for this, so "d spam" away!
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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by agotterer on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @10:22AM (#703715)
I'm going to town on my list. Thanks.
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Re:Ask HN: Twitter and Spam by raquo on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @12:18PM (#703983)
Funny - "Hey there, spam is using twitter!"
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