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@Honolulu_Alerts

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


Honolulu Weather
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Description: Severe weather alerts for Honolulu, HI, 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 15:50:09 +0000 2009
Updates: 8744, Following: 2141, Followers: 2098.

Ignore factor: 2%

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

Blocked by 4 TwitBlock users

This is equivalent to 0.2% of @Honolulu_Alerts'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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