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		ErikAugust on Feb 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake ... You don't have to follow a bot, so you will never see their tweets in your timeline. You can't remove a sponsored tweet from your timeline.

sbtrct on Feb 1, 2018 [–]

I haven't used an official Twitter client for a while, but you certainly used to be able to block the account making a sponsored tweet, which will remove it from your timeline.

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