The spammers continue to have fun with Twitter - I get tons of "follow" requests from scammers now, and over the weekend a prank seems to have pushed Twitter into accidentally deleting a bunch of valid accounts:

On the same day as the primate prank, Twitter itself erred by suspending hundreds to possibly thousands of regular user accounts. How the suspensions happened is unclear, but Twitter officially said it was due to "human error."

The prank involved getting a flash mob to create fake accounts and post the same hashtag, so as to hit the top of Twitter's trending topics. It worked, so I expect to see more of that kind of thing. In the meantime, the Twit-neighborhood continues to get worse :)

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