It’s Probably Twitter Spam If…
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They just tweeted this: “RT @garymccaffrey has a crazy idea. 19,530 new twitter followers in 30 days? Check it out http://tweetergetter.com @username”
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Their profile links to a Squidoo page
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Their profile links to a landing page
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They’re following 4,000 people, but only 5 people follow them
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Their username is @lfdj383f3ml (how lazy can you be?)
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Their auto-follow reply message is already trying to sell you something
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They only have one tweet and it goes to a landing page
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Their username has a famous person’s name with at least one underscore after it
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Their profile image is smoking hot!
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All those 9 sound like what spammers will do. Thanks for the list, i will definitely be alert to identify spammers. Hope to see your new updates soon!
Hey! what if we are smoking hot?! haha Number 4 is oh so common.
its pretty simple 2 me. if they follow more than theyve tweeted theyre probably using a followbot. i dunno abt squidoo or landing pages, but i mainly use my fone and it doesnt work well with most links. if it isnt twitpic or someone i know, i probably wont bother clicking the links.
I totally agree, I have a slightly different take on this
http://samerforzley.com/2009/02/03/twitter-follow-back-basics/
I never follow unknown people on twitter. If I have subscribed to a blog and blogger has interesting posts, I might follow them. Otherwise, it just between friends !!
Only if you had thought of another reason
I would have dugg this story, top ten lists rock on digg 
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