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by MBCook 1469 days ago
I tried looking that kind of thing up a few years ago. It was useless. Just bots spamming job postings, weather data, and other stuff like that for the city I’m in and any suburb within a large range.

You had to hunt to find a single tweet from an actual person.

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It's funny, Twitter should know when a tweet comes from an third-party API connection or not. If that information exists, wouldn't it be a great way to heuristically exclude posts a bunch of bots (even if users who use e.g. Nitter would have posts excluded as well?)