He was, however, an enrolled agent until August 3, 2007, when his status became inactive.

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"We are currently in a sweet spot where the OMT is inactive but is standing by reassuringly and everybody is benefiting from the status quo of low peripheral yields in some way, " Richard Crossley, a strategist at Citigroup, said in a note.

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For instance Bill Gates, who one would assume has no reason to puff up his Twitter status has, according to StatusPeople, 41% fake and 38% inactive users out of his total 8 million followers.

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