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Spam was a serious and growing problem before the major providers got serious about filtering. For now I just report clickbait feeds as spam and hope for the best.

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I thought, "ha, he'd need a botnet to make any noticeable impact", when I thought, has anyone thought of that?

Using a network of bots to detect and report obvious bot accounts.

In the same spirit, there is at least one botnet dubbed Linux/Moose [1] dedicated to penetrating home routers for the sole purpose of creating fake followers on social networks. [1] http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/11/02/linuxmoose-still-br...

Possible to automate, but limiting your report/block activity to spam-accounts that follow your real account would have the most impact.

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