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by ddemchuk 5446 days ago
twitter is inherently a spammer's heaven. It's really easy to make 140 characters seem legitimate. An hour of writing spun content and a really easy to build signup bot and you can have full conversations, retweets, everything.

There's a reason twitter gets spammed so much, and it's because most of the time, normal people's 140 character messages look just as spammy as the actual spam.