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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by riffer on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:54PM (#895496)
I like the idea, but what's going to stop a bot from re-tweeting?
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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by siong1987 on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @04:40PM (#895575)
If a lot of people have retweeted you, you are ranked higher on the list, which means that your retweet is ranked higher than retweet from a bot.
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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by Devilboy on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @06:59PM (#895838)
Yes but nothing stops a botter from running thousands of bots re-tweeting the main spambot's tweets.
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