On 8 November 2015 at 14:06, Finn Årup Nielsen faan@dtu.dk wrote:
I sometimes search Twitter for the word "Wikidata" to get updates beyond this mailing list. The past couple of times I have experienced that a considerable part of the posts are from fake accounts issueing more or less the same post "The file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata." I tried to report and block these posts but find that it really doesn't help.
I analysed this phenomenon in a January 2013 blog post:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/twitter-spam-case-study/
Sadly, Twitter seem unwilling to deal with such abuse.