Twitter suspending accounts

[Guest]

Apparently Twitter has been suspending accounts that steal tweets.

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Continuing its battle against the "tweetdeckers," Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known for stealing tweets or mass-retweeting tweets into manufactured virality.

They [Twitter] are trying to stop spam accounts and stop people who inflate accounts in order to sell them and so on.

A number of meme accounts have been affected (finally we won't see the same meme over and over again, for now of course)

 

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This wasn't meant to be some news topic, I just want to see what other people have to say about it and their thoughts are.

[Beef Boss]

It's their platform, they own it and you agreed to their ToS.

[Misanthrope]

How is "manufactured virality" a thing?

 

If this is about bots, then twitter needs to take better measures to detect and suspend bots.

 

If this is about pushing tweets to the front, it seems like a fairly transparent attempt of them trying to prevent people from a circumvent of Twitter's own advertising business models since they actually do "manufacture virality" themselves with "promoted tweets" a.k.a. Advertising.

 

It seems to be extremely fucking near sighted to reprimand people for using their popularity on a website that encourages people to become popular to begin with by using follower counts, likes and retweet counts, verified checkmarks, etc.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

If this is about bots, then twitter needs to take better measures to detect and suspend bots.

I think it's more about trying to stop people from selling/buying accounts, but that could be another reason.

[dalekphalm]

7 hours ago, lewdicrous said:

Apparently Twitter has been suspending accounts that steal tweets.

They [Twitter] are trying to stop spam accounts and stop people who inflate accounts in order to sell them and so on.

A number of meme accounts have been affected (finally we won't see the same meme over and over again, for now of course)

 

Source

 

This wasn't meant to be some news topic, I just want to see what other people have to say about it and their thoughts are.

So here's the thing.

 

An account that gets caught up accidentally in the banning and is banned wrongfully? Sure that's bad. There should be a process in which account holders can get their accounts back.

 

However, as for the reason twitter is actually trying to stop this: bots spamming retweets? Yeah I'm 100% okay with that.

[Teddy07]

I miss another option in the poll [x] don't care fuck twitter 

[Canada EH]

I have never been to Twitter, nor give a flying fuck about Twitter, but Twitter can doe whatever they want because they own it and you accepted the rules.

[AshleyAshes]

ITT: People who don't care about Twitter so much that they go into a thread with 'Twitter' in the title, read the first post which is about twitter, write a response expressing just how much they care about twitter, and then clicking 'submit reply'.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Teddy07 said:

I miss another option in the poll [x] don't care fuck twitter 

added that