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by egypturnash 3781 days ago
This may also be in part to more active users of Twitter hitting the "report spam" button on those spam bots. If a spambot tweets at me, I'll go do that. I'm sure I'm not the only one, as I never see a spambot with more than a handful of tweets showing up in my mentions.

So, crowdsource spam detection.