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Well the text is HTML entities to escape ASCII text. "People being end with a person. Like everything in OUNASS ProMo CODE Onas OuNaS oNass cOuPOn DiscOUnt NoON SiVvl non toyou NaMshi"

Here Sivvi, toyou, Namshi, noon, and OUNASS are all brands of shopping websites and you can see their logos in the image.

Clearly this is some sort of keyword spam, though it's hard to tell more than that from your screenshot. It's also not clear why they'd bother to use HTML entities... a bug in the spam code? Or perhaps exploiting some parser differential between different twitter systems? Who can say.

parent missblit 2 years ago

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