I am not a spammer but, all my accounts were pointing at the same url. and my tweets were dripping over all the accounts, but they were the same tweet on each of the accounts, I should of used a spinner….

I would tweet this article but I lost all 200 accounts.

I still have all the ping.fm integration connected…. maybe i can salvage that.

Eye opening article. Am I ever glad that none of the undesirable mentioned could come back and haunt me, as I never participated in any of it. Sure, I’ve posted maybe a couple of links, if that. I’m a read-o-holic, unfortunately for my own account. I get so absorbed by everyone else’s wonder-tweets that I foget all about my own.

Thanks for the heads up, in any event.

i pay absolutely no attention to who is following or unfollowing me…

instead of wasting time on follow/unfollow and dm notifications… i spend my time interacting with the folks who actually respond via twitter…

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It also seems the rules don’t apply to all, especially the so-called “elite” Tweeters and celebrities. When you sign up for Twitter you agree to their terms- just as everyone else- it should be enforced despite who you are in real life, (or Twitter itself).

The two below are examples of what the most notable get away with:

If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates.

If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account.

I am a conversationalist on Twitter, with the exception of promoting charities. Do I post links? Yes- as do the charity accounts- how else are they to inform people of what they do? It’s no different than a self-proclaimed guru telling people to follow a certain person over and over again. At least I’m providing information and helping good causes who need recognition. This is how social functions work in life- you converse, engage and provide information. And this is how Twitter should work.

I’m blocking someone because of it. I don’t know if that will be enough to get their account suspended, but they’ve been doing this follow-unfollow behavior on my page 5x now. And each time they follow, I have never followed them back. Makes me wonder if they ever got the hint.

Appreciate your list on Twitter’s policy. I plan on sharing your article with others.

With all the spammers still busy tweeting away, the Twitter staff must have something that is triggering these suspensions. Makes you wonder what each suspended user was doing that caused the death of their account. Could you be nearing the dreaded sus…

And now I have to go find you on Twitter to follow you. haha

Matt
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I do sometimes go on a binge & manually follow alot of people at one time. A few days ago, I laboriously searched my followers to unfollow those who haven’t tweeted in the last 3 months.
Sure hope Twitter doesn’t see a bad “pattern” in this type of activity.

I’m having a great time with Twitter!

You #RAWK! LOL XOX

Lori Moreno
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I’m an aspiring writer trying to promote myself. Publishers won’t even look at you nowadays unless you can prove you already have a following. Crazy, I know, but that’s the nature of the beast today.

Now I could just tweet “Go here and read my first chapter” over and over. Instead I’m tweeting as my character on his daily adventures. I follow lists of sci-fi fans, book lovers, historians, etc. that look like they might be interested. I have hundreds tweeting me how much they love my twitter feed and telling others to follow me. 90% of these people would never have discovered me, if I hadn’t followed them first.

I don’t believe I’m doing anything wrong. I’m not intentially bothering anyone and I’m certainly hurting no one. And I seem to be entertaining a lot of people. If Twitter ever suspended @Wendell_Howe I think there might be a riot!

Does Twitter automatically suspend people, or do they look at what you are doing first? People are finding all kinds of clever and harmless applications for Twitter that Twitter doesn’t seem to even know about. Twitter should remember to follow the spirit of the law rather the letter.
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“THINK, PLAN, EXECUTE!”-JAWAR

Is there some kind of cut-off number to stay under the radar? Like, if I send the same message and link to five people that’s fine, but ten is bad? Or do you have to send it to hundreds of people before it gets noticed?
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I’m currently building a Twitter App and it helps to know what is considered spamming since the App will be using an Auto-invite feature.

Kofi C

ps: I’d love for you to be a private beta tester if you are available in a couple of weeks
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Bottom line, I really enjoy reading the musings of people who make me laugh and/or are informative or shows/showrunners I enjoy (to a point – some people are drastically different on Twitter than in interviews, etc… and I don’t share their views), but my ratio of following to followers is almost 2:1 (i’m in the upper hundreds, followers in mid-hundreds). I do sometimes worry that people might think I’m “one of those” accounts, but don’t put too much stock in someone only looking at that ratio and not what I have to say, or wondering what it was about them that led me to their tweets.

Besides – a follow from Winnie is like a Hallmark card. #delusionsofgrandeur #usinghashtagsofftwitter

http://www.techforluddites.com/2009/12/t4l-redux-the-twitter-hash-tag.html

Could you be nearing the dreaded suspension? Something you may be doing right now could be digging your Twitter grave….

But I got one question – Those people who have been doin churning since past 1 year on twitter have got a ton of followers. and now the rule says it should not be done.

Wont it be unfair to people who just joined twitter ??
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While I don’t use spamming or auto-generating mailing or following techniques, I have found and individually chosen a large number of interesting people to follow. This has been largely due to the fact that, as one might subscribe to a list-serve, I actually enjoy being connected to such a close level of information from people and insights all over the globe. A former doctoral student, I find the wealth of info fun and helpful for my work.

How does this not represent an appropriate use of Twitter? Further, why would Twitter want to so discourage the USE of a service it created and offers?

I really don’t understand this kind of policing of folks with truly good intentions. Why should we use a service that seems to want to read a kind of antogonism into the behaviors of its own user-base?

How does this serve your business or your own strategies? People who create bad Karma will lose by the Karma. Most of us are your good customers. I think you might re-think this “threat’ strategy. It sends a negative message.

Thanks for deep research and resourceful post.

Can’t wait to go explore more of your blog for tips!

-Katie aka @OCMomActivities
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Could you be nearing the dreaded suspension? Something you may be doing right now could be digging your Twitter grave….

And no…there is no replacement for the unfollow scripts. Twitter contacted developers and warned them their services would be shut down entirely if they did not remove that feature.

Now I am sure at some point there will be rogue apps available that will do this function, but I will not be using them, and I don’t advise anyone to use them.

The link thing is also a new one for me. I’d assume they actually investigate what the links are before suspending, no?

Keep up the great work,
Tommy Landry
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I think the key is to simply keep them spread out and make sure that’s not the only content you share. Just be sure to be social with other and share their content as well.