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350,000 Twitter bot sleeper cell betrayed by love of Star Wars and Windows Phone

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Why would Twitter want to disable the accounts?

Apart from usual reason (more users == higher value), once you spot an idle bot army it is better to classify and watch the behavior. That way you can identify all of them, and watch for the creation of new accounts to track evolution. If you kill them all immediately, the behavior may change too dramatically to track.

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