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Has your site been hacked? The top trending articles are things like "Making $125,000/Month Selling Hacker TLDs", "How To Create Squeeze Pages The Stupidly Simple Way", and "Why Invest In Gold? There Are Several Reasons…". It looks like there's a big problem with spam there.

I would contend that trying to get Twitter followers with content like that is going to go quite badly.

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Launch growing pains, trying to figure out a way to weed out the content marketers as they have been flocking since we launched early access. I've been tweaking with the trending score along with considering adding invite-only at some point. For now I'm just testing but I wanted to know how I would dash out social media.

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