There are miles between "account and server compromise" and the kind of things you get from email spam. > All it would take is popping a poorly configured serv

There are miles between "account and server compromise" and the kind of things you get from email spam. > All it would take is popping a poorly configured server and then spam can be injected into the feeds you've chosen to follow. This is still way, way harder and more expensive than email spam. (Can be swiftly dealt with, after which you have to go compromise another server)