On 8 November 2015 at 14:06, Finn Årup Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I sometimes search Twitter for the word "Wikidata" to get updates beyond
> this mailing list. The past couple of times I have experienced that a
> considerable part of the posts are from fake accounts issueing more or less
> the same post "The file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia
> biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata." I tried to report
> and block these posts but find that it really doesn't help.

I analysed this phenomenon in a January 2013 blog post:

   http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/twitter-spam-case-study/

Sadly, Twitter seem unwilling to deal with such abuse.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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