> For example, the top 20 accounts, which were mostly bots and highly automated accounts, averaged over 1,300 tweets a day That works out to about 1 tweet/minu

> For example, the top 20 accounts, which were mostly bots and highly automated accounts, averaged over 1,300 tweets a day That works out to about 1 tweet/minute per day... how is this not spam? Why can't Twitter do the most basic of spam filtering? And you know why I don't use Twitter anymore? It's because of this. They optimized for the wrong metric: the number of accounts, or the number of tweets/day.