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gaius on June 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The earthquake that killed Twitter? Spam makes the...

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.

hopeless on June 13, 2011 [–]

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!

gaius on June 13, 2011 | [–]

No, of course not! But one of your criteria was a link in every tweet.

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