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Ever got a Twitter follow notification from a Twitter user with a spammy name like "Satellite TV for PC"? Did you notice they're following thousands of people, but not all those people are following them back?
The account might be a Twitter follow bot: an automated script that follows thousands of users in the hope some of them might return the follow and subscribe to the spammy messages. And if you don't follow them back? They'll automatically unfollow you after a few days. Mashable first covered this issue a year ago in the article: "Is Twitter About to Have a Big Spam Problem?".
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