From the write up: "Randomly tweeting at people is considered spam by Twitter. However, this went through so fast that I believe several accounts who spread th

From the write up: "Randomly tweeting at people is considered spam by Twitter. However, this went through so fast that I believe several accounts who spread the news on purpose didn’t like our bot. And thus reported it ..." Yes, oddly enough if you threaten people's income streams they will tend to react badly, and quickly.