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@CO_SpringsAlert

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Colorado Springs
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Description: Severe weather alerts for Colorado Springs, CO, plus hourly condition reports. For more city weather alerts for Twitter users, click web link. Feeds by NWS.
URL: http://www.swasalert.com
Joined: Mon May 11 15:27:55 +0000 2009
Updates: 9023, Following: 3317, Followers: 3185.

Ignore factor: 4%

This account follows more people than follow back, but within a reasonable boundary.

Blocked by 4 TwitBlock users

This is a tiny compared to @CO_SpringsAlert's 3,185 followers

Marked as "not spam" by 3 TwitBlock users

Anyone can get their friends to help whitelist them, but we don't think the bots have managed it [yet].

Shares the same photo as 135 other accounts that people have blocked.

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