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by ryankals 5420 days ago
Spam probably isn't a HUGE concern for Twitter. I have an account without any "real" followers. They're all spam bots. But it looks good to have 73 followers even if you don't know them - makes people look/feel important.

Kevin Rose touched on this. He called it "social currency".

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So that makes the spammers a quantitative easing program for Twitter?