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by softawre 3916 days ago
Imagine you have to write an algorithm to determine twitter spam. Would it include accountCreatedDate?
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The algorithm would probably contain a dummy variable representing isYoungerThanXDays where X is the median number of time it takes to create a new account after it has been banned.

I doubt accounts that are Y days old vs. Z years old have different probabilities of being spammers.