Comments on: Twitter: you can be banned http://www.ozwebhub.com/blog/2008/09/19/twitter-you-can-be-banned/ an extension of www.ozwebhub.com Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:19:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Susanna http://www.ozwebhub.com/blog/2008/09/19/twitter-you-can-be-banned/#comment-316 Susanna Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +0000 http://www.ozwebhub.com/blog/?p=307#comment-316 Bots!! Of late Twitter has been cracking down on the incredible amount of spam going through and deleting users who display these characteristics. "You add all your friends then go around following people that look interesting or fun". How many friends do we have? If they're our friends they will follow us back, this is the raison d'etre for Twitter, not for submitting links ad nauseum. Speaking personally, I've blocked users who followed me and posted nothing but links for 2 weeks. This is what Twitter states : "What we do is flag certain users who are adding very large numbers of friends (i.e., if you’re adding an average number of friends, you’re OK and won’t get flagged). Essentially, there are extremely spammy users and bots that try to friend every account they possibly can - sometimes it’s possible for a real person to trip these flags, but unlikely (you have to be following a pretty significant number of people over your number of followers)." I don't know what your acquaintance who ran afoul of the TOS did but an email to support should clear it up. Bots!! Of late Twitter has been cracking down on the incredible amount of spam going through and deleting users who display these characteristics.

“You add all your friends then go around following people that look interesting or fun”. How many friends do we have? If they’re our friends they will follow us back, this is the raison d’etre for Twitter, not for submitting links ad nauseum. Speaking personally, I’ve blocked users who followed me and posted nothing but links for 2 weeks.

This is what Twitter states : “What we do is flag certain users who are adding very large numbers of friends (i.e., if you’re adding an average number of friends, you’re OK and won’t get flagged). Essentially, there are extremely spammy users and bots that try to friend every account they possibly can – sometimes it’s possible for a real person to trip these flags, but unlikely (you have to be following a pretty significant number of people over your number of followers).”

I don’t know what your acquaintance who ran afoul of the TOS did but an email to support should clear it up.

]]> By: Peter Answers http://www.ozwebhub.com/blog/2008/09/19/twitter-you-can-be-banned/#comment-315 Peter Answers Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:07:46 +0000 http://www.ozwebhub.com/blog/?p=307#comment-315 OK #2 seems crazy to me! I would guess they dont just autoban you for that but if they are looking at your for other reasons they use that as an excuse. OK #2 seems crazy to me! I would guess they dont just autoban you for that but if they are looking at your for other reasons they use that as an excuse.

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