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>> I always wondered how much is in the interest of Twitter to get rid of fake accounts. <<

Mr. Eden there found out how to identify them quite nicely without having access to internal Twitter tech, so my guess is Twitter could have done the same, but hasn't. So I think the answer is, "not much."

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I wonder if Twitter's hand can be forced to deal with bots by users running an automated bot identifier + spam reporter. Maybe a botnet of bot reporters... :)

Ha, that does sound like fun. I think I might attempt to build something like that.

If you do, I will be happy to contribute the criteria for "fakeness". malatortsev at itrend dot tv

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