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Are Spammers Impeding Twitter Growth?

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Over the weekend, Twitter found itself victim to the tomfoolery of 4chan as the online community’s members apparently launched an initiative to make “#gorillapenis” a trending topic. They were successful, but Twitter of course responded by removing it from the trending topics. What is 4chan? 4chan describes itself as “a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images.” It is known however, for its online hijinks like the infamous YouTube Porn Day , when the site’s users got together to put a punch of porn videos on YouTube, claiming it

 

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