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The tweets in their example look like people clicking a share button, which commonly use a link shortener and are often formatted like “article - link,” you can
by css 7y ago
The tweets in their example look like people clicking a share button, which commonly use a link shortener and are often formatted like “article - link,” you can see this by searching for headlines of nearly any publisher on Twitter. Here is an example for an article currently on the NYT homepage: https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Bernie%20Sanders%2C%20the%20Teflon%20Candidate%2C%20Faces%20Sudden%20New%20Tests&src=typed_query&f=live https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Bernie%20Sanders%2C%20th...
The OP’s hero image caption states:
> Twitter says duplicative messages violate its policy against platform manipulation and spam
Does this mean people should start to worry about clicking share buttons now? It is hardly bot activity to use a feature of the platform. Everyone who clicks a share button by default is tweeting the same message.
- notatoad 7y agofor another example, see here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERWNvSLVUAAomYy?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERWNvSLVUAAomYy?format=jpg&name=... no link, and replies to another tweet. definitely not clicking a share button, just a bunch of people posting the exact same thing. and even if it was the share button, twitter isn't banning based on single posts, they're banning on patterns. if 70+ accounts all clicked the same share button on the same 15 articles in a day, that'd probably trigger their bot-like behaviour detectors too, even though it's a "platform feature"
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago> Does this mean people should start to worry about clicking share buttons now? If they're getting paid to, then I certainly hope so.