Recently @louisventer and @Rishil found themselves banned from Twitter with no explaination, and after some pretty awesome hashtag protesting @Rishil was reinstated.

Turns out both got banned for tweeting a URL – http:// cash – with – google .info

Not exactly breaking news, I hear you say. Hear me out…

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Bots, scrapers, harvesters etc. It seems they adapt to every new platform from Facebook and Digg through to Q&A sites and IM – and of course microblogging services like Twitter.

Following on from Archibold Teriyaki’s Twitter email spam test, I figured he had a few more uses before becoming too cross-contaminated for me to consider the tests objective.

Objective

If I send an @reply to a new Twitter account from an existing account, will the auto-follow bots be clever enough to follow the new account?

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Inspired by Fantomaster’s… “Do NOT tweet your e-mail address openly if you don’t want to get spammed to hell and back!”

Objective

a) If I tweet a new email address onto the public timeline, will it get picked up as per Fantomaster’s warning?

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