Friday went poorly for a select group of Twitter users that have earned a reputation for their expertise \u00a0at gaming the system.<\/p>\n
The social media company moved to suspend a number of popular accounts with millions of followers between them,\u00a0Buzzfeed reports. Their offense? Stealing people’s tweets without credit and conspiring as a group to share tweets \u2014 their own, and those of paying customers \u2014 with the intent of forcing them to go viral.<\/p>\n
Many of the suspended accounts \u2014 a list that includes @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, @reiatabie, @commonwhitegiri, @teenagernotes, @finah, @holyfag, and @memeprovider \u2014 are known as “tweetdeckers.” These users are so named because they gather in private Tweetdeck groups to plot out their plans to manufacture virality (a practice that Buzzfeed has\u00a0documented extensively).<\/p>\n
This sort of behavior goes against\u00a0Twitter’s rules, which clearly state: “You may not use Twitter\u2019s services for the purpose of spamming anyone.” The platform’s spam policy covers many different types of bad behavior, including the posting of “duplicative or substantially similar content, replies, or mentions over multiple accounts” or “[attempting] to artificially inflate account interactions.”<\/p>\n
Tweetdeckers engage in both of those activities to make a post go viral, and some accept payment to perform the task for third-party interests \u2014 another Twitter no-no.<\/p>\n
Recently, the company has\u00a0purged bots\u00a0(though\u00a0there are reasons\u00a0it may not go further),\u00a0tweaked rules, and\u00a0banned face-swap videos, many of which fall under the category of pornography.<\/p>\n
There are still plenty of problem areas to be addressed on Twitter, but Friday’s move to suspend known tweetdeckers is just one more action in a recent string of them. It’s all part of the company’s ongoing struggle to clean up its platform, a process that has also come to include\u00a0looking for outside assistance.<\/p>\n
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Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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