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Yeah, the passwords are also short strings like 4040. Usually twitter doesn't let you define such unsecure password.

I've made some throwaway accounts for testing, and found that insecure passwords are A-OK for Twitter!

why don't you share the username/password here and we'll see how much sharing we can get away with (let's try not ruin the fun by changing the password...)

wow is this ever unpopular. I didn't mean, "of your account", I meant of "your throwaway twitter account with lax security, to see if twitter minds whether several or dozens of people use one from all different IP's". Or whether, like Google, they even care if people do unusual, suspicious things. Nevermind, I guess!

Interesting, I got what you meant straight away and thought it would be interesting to see what happens too. Shame eh!

There are a few in there like that, but just glancing at it the majority of them are suspiciously uniform. 8 random-looking characters, upper/lower/number.

If this really is a list of spammer accounts, the ones that look like real accounts are probably stolen from legit users to be used for spamming.

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