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I may be reading the Twitter terms incorrectly, but it seems like any solution will be against it. TOS states: > You may not send unsolicited Direct Messages
by ivanstojic 6y ago
I may be reading the Twitter terms incorrectly, but it seems like any solution will be against it.
TOS states:
> You may not send unsolicited Direct Messages in a bulk or automated manner, and should be thoughtful about the frequency with which you contact users via Direct Message.
This is exactly what the proposed solution would have to do.
- drawfloat 6y agoYeah, this feels almost like a get out clause that will prevent ever having to pay out on the bounty – though I don't think it's intentional. If this is meant for people with large follower counts and regardless of approach you ultimately end up sending thousands upon thousands of messages with the same content + a link, you're going to get flagged and you're going to get banned. I feel like the authors of bounty are focusing too much on their understandable and not intentionally malicious use case, and overlooking the fact they're asking for a straight up run of the mill spam bot. In fact the only difference to your usual spam bot is the ultimate aim of the spam it's sending is to actively harm Twitter's own business.