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@CranstonWeather

Examine the facts below, but please only block this account if you are sure it's spam.


Cranston Weather
Location: Cranston, Rhode Island
Description: Severe weather alerts for Cranston, RI, plus one hourly condition report. For more weather alerts for Twitter users, click on web link above. Feeds by NWS
URL: http://www.swasalert.com
Joined: Fri Jun 19 21:43:47 +0000 2009
Updates: 9046, Following: 645, Followers: 620.

Ignore factor: 4%

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

Blocked by 2 TwitBlock users

This is equivalent to 0.3% of @CranstonWeather's followers.

People get blocked for all sorts of reasons, but the higher this ratio the more likely the account is a nuisance.

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

Duplicate profile pics across multiple accounts is a trait almost unique to spam accounts.

We maintain a leaderboard of the most re-used photos.

Tweets via API

This account's last tweet was from an unregistered app.

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