Paul Graham on Twitter: "Whole stretches of my Twitter notifications are from a single group of spambots. Anyone else seeing this?… "

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1. Bruno Jahn‏ @foxyforecaster 12 Jul 2016
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  Yeah, had something similar not too long ago.
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1. Travis Dent‏ @tcdent 12 Jul 2016
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  I estimate 50% of my social interaction is with bots.
  
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1. Garrett Gillas‏ @garrettgillas 12 Jul 2016
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  Yes, I get that too. Twitter has always been slow to remove bots because they make the active user base numbers appear bigger.
  
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1. Scott Hartsman‏Verified account @hartsman 12 Jul 2016
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  Yep. The pornbots are out in force with hacked accts this time, not just newly created ones.
  
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1. Horacio ‏ @HoracioChavez 12 Jul 2016
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  Horacio Retweeted Horacio
  
  yes, but only for this @TechCrunch's RThttps://twitter.com/horaciochavez/status/746882694806593536 …
  
  Horacio added,
  
  Horacio @HoracioChavez
  
  I'm so proud of the @turingschool https://twitter.com/techcrunch/status/746880681750499328 …
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1. Diogo Neves‏ @DiogoSnows 12 Jul 2016
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  yes, only once but lasted for a week after some twitter chat. I was spammed like no tomorrow. great way to destroy a chat community
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1. Andreas Dewes‏ @ardewes 12 Jul 2016
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  many people run software like "Followliker" these days to increase their follower count.
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1. Nathan Barnett‏ @bendingfuture 12 Jul 2016
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  Can’t be any worse than the people who constantly follow and unfollow each day to try to get you to follow back
  
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1. Tayyab Hussain‏ @ItsTayyab 12 Jul 2016
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  the rest of us aren't cool enough to be botted lol
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1. Sid Kalla‏ @sidkal 12 Jul 2016
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  you say spambot, Twitter say Monthly Active Users
  
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