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i just got the report. i.e., http://twitter.com/1000free is considered ham by your app, looks like spam to me. maybe a feedback button would be appropriate (mark as spam/ham.)

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Like I said, it doesn't look at the account's tweets, just its profile. That account has a good follower/following balance, it's not brand new, it hasn't sent a ton of tweets in a short time, it has a profile image... basically it looks safe.

Yes feedback is definitely needed to improve it! And to identify spam for other users with the same followers.

I guess that you use users/show endpoint to get the user's profile. Instead you can ask for each user's timeline - it is still 1 API call, you still get their profile data, but you also get their tweets.

The only downside is that the request might take longer.

Btw, beware that some spam accounts use others tweets to look legit. I can send you some for example, if you're interested.

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