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		simonw on April 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Twitter devalued its top status symbol and wha... In those cases it was about risk of impersonation. Plenty of people who weren't "famous" still had enough of an audience that it was profitable for some crypto-hawking spammer to imitate them and try to con their audience.

ghaff on April 6, 2023 [–]

That basically happened to me. Modest number of followers but enough for the crypto-grifters to spam.

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