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New account. So? People create new accounts all the time. How do accounts come into existence? Tweeting out links. So? One of the most basic use cases there ar
by fleddr 4y ago
New account. So? People create new accounts all the time. How do accounts come into existence?
Tweeting out links. So? One of the most basic use cases there are, for example a brand tweeting links to press releases.
From multiple locations. So? You mean like every multinational?
None of these factors have any smoking gun indicator to decisively and permanently suspend an account. On the other end of the spectrum we have a zillion crypto bots having the exact same avatar, name variations, auto-tweeting within the second of a main tweet being posted, and this is not spam.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoThis is faulty analysis. Of course not any single one of these things by itself would indicate spam, but a yes, a brand new account that only tweets links, from multinational locations, would probably be spam the vast, vast majority of the time.
- fleddr 4y agoThe problem is the word "probably". There's no smoking gun, just an increased likelihood. Yet a very definitive conclusion is made prematurely. Even if you find such entity "spamming" links, it still doesn't meet the more traditional definition of spam. Said account does not notify anybody, does not comment, direct message, it's just self-spamming.