Talking about NSFW spambots here. They can be a real nuisance, esp. in searches. They would be trivial to detect.
I've noticed that if you report spam accounts, nothing happens. Not only Twitter makes no attempt at filtering spam, it also ignores reports
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yup, needed spam accounts for a study. Just find a big one, crawl friends and followers and filter by keywords. So many of them...
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I joined the Twitter beta programming coz I thought they might pay attention to reports then. Now I get spam and a buggy client :(
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I've reported accounts and seen them instantly suspended, fwiw.
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free training set?
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not true.
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there are so many spam reports that they get filtered as spam.
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Reinforced Forgetting.
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