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by _rpd 3479 days ago
> I like the idea.

A voluntary bot net is still a bot net. And I wonder how voluntary it really is? Can you easily decline further participation if you start to disagree with some of the "fake news" it is spamming?

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One would think that simply changing the password on the Twitter account would be the end of it. But for the curious, I would still recommend establishing a "burner" account for testing purposes.
You can easily de-authorize the application that you join to remove yourself from the botnet