The Twitter account for updates from Yahoo's Live video service has a respectable 2,025 followers (worth a combined $3786.75 according to the latest estimates). However, the account is following 6,744 users. Which means the Live team is either really, really interested in what you each and every one of you ate for breakfast or it's adding any account it can find — and generating email and SMS notifications in the process. It's just bad form, really.

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