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So this guy is openly declaring his intent to spam a bunch of people.

Honestly, good luck with that. Twitter has a lot of measures in place to prevent people from abusing this sort of thing. For example, you can't just auto add 10,000 people (you technically can, but Twitter will ban you).

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Well, yes, but this is still quite interesting (imho).

In the old days, the competitor had an email list. You couldn't know how many or who were subscribed. In a twitter world, it's all out in the open.

It would probably be a mistake for him to actually use twitter to contact these people. But I can imagine for corporate customers this will tell you which companies will be more amenable to a cold call by telephone.

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