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I hadn't used my twitter account in months and just this morning got notification that lucille166 was following me. Is lucille166 just another of my enamored female fans, you ask. Nope, a porn bot. I wonder how much of the increase can be attributed to the influx of spam/porn bots to this previously (I'm assuming) pristine online landscape.

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That growth references traffic, I believe. But by many other accounts they are growing rapidly. I don't think spam/porn is a HUGE problem yet, tho I've seen more following me (@webwright) lately.

I've also heard that their API traffic is 20-30x their web traffic, so when you see their web graphs, that's worth pondering.

The problem IMHO will be the fact that it's reasonably easy to make money from their web traffic. Making money from API traffic seems downright impossible to me.

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