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		ElijahLynn on July 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement So was the whole goal all along to try and figure out how much of Twitter was fake spam accounts? That would be one way of doing it.

riffic on July 8, 2022 [–]

If there's a valid combination of username and password, the account is in no way "fake". I wish there was better terminology here.

It can in certain be a spam account though.

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