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Why should this be banned? It's not the same as spam, since you have to subscribe to someone to see their tweets.
by meowface 10y ago
Why should this be banned? It's not the same as spam, since you have to subscribe to someone to see their tweets.
- somedangedname 10y agoNot a Twitter user but: if you wanted to disrupt or derail ongoing conversations, couldn't that be done programmatically too? Or harass people?
- meowface 10y agoYes, but that's a different subject entirely. This article is just describing someone queueing up general political tweets.
- r721 10y ago>and “.@realDonaldTrump” in hopes of getting the attention of Trump or those who track messages to him. He mentions Trump by username in some tweets at least, so that could be considered "harassing" (depending on scale though).
- snowwrestler 10y agoNot if they @ you, which is what these bots do--which also triggers a notification if you have them turned on.
- greglindahl 10y agoThese tweets leak into search results. Or, maybe you want to think of it as "Twitter allows them to leak into search results."
- jsprogrammer 10y agoTwitter manipulates search results. I've been looking at a live tweet, searched for a hashtag in that tweet, and Twitter said there were no matching Tweets.