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Excerpt: It is finally here. Twitter spam. (It has probably been around for a while but now it is here for me personally.)  Now that Twitter is a mainstream form of communication it has been hijacked by scammers, spammers and other idiot marketers. Over the past few days my followers have been mainly from  make money fast and other fake accounts that are trying to get my attention. As always, the spam works on the ability to send large numbers of messages for little or no cost. It relies on the few people who click it and make it worthwhile. Spammers also target the…