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Fake presidential candidate spam comes to Twitter

Eric Eldon, VentureBeat03.12.2008
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twitterspam031208.png I woke up this morning to find that a number of current and former presidential candidates were following me on my Twitter account. Or at least their fake profiles were — BarackObama4, MikeHuckabee47, SamBrownback4, etc. (I’m not going to link to them). The fake profiles are full of messages like excerpts from... (Read more)

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