The bare facts:
Started June 2 with 1,072 followers and following 1,048.
Deactivated June 3 with 1,420 followers and following 1,569.

Why did I start?
I volunteered to do a review of TweepMe after a quick perusal of their site.  I cleared my inbox of new followers so that the above stats would be accurate.  Then I signed in with my twitter name and password and got $2 off for sending a tweet that I was joining.  I left the API limit per hour at 50.

What happened next?
There were no further instructions so I started browsing to see if there was something else I needed to do.  I noticed a lot of standard avatars without pictures when browsing tweeps. I clicked on 2 pictures of nice ladies.  One I followed.  The other was all in German.  I have nothing against German; I just can’t understand it.

I immediately checked email and had 4 new followers.  The first two that came through had protected updates, and one’s website was in Portuguese.  Of those first four I followed 2.  Then I had 2 more followers in email.  Three hours later it said I had 66 new followers.  By 9:00 that night I had 400 emails from Twitter.  Of the first 35 I looked at I followed 11.  Two of those I blocked, 2 were French, and 2 were Spanish.  I spent 2 hours going through those 400 emails while watching a movie with my husband, but when I was done I still had 400 emails from Twitter!  It seemed like they were coming faster and faster.  I told Twitter to lock my updates because I didn’t know what was happening.  It said I was following people that I would never even read.
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