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Twitter impersonation cases are out of control
The Twitter Rules say: "Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Twitter service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others".
I have detected an account (very likely to be a bot) that is posting exactly the same tweets I post, with 5-minutes delay; including mentions and pictures, which mislead people who is being mentioned.
That is clearly an impersonation case, but Twitter says that they don't mediate user content UNLESS it violates the Twitter Rules.
Doesn't a bot that replicate your tweets violate the Twitter Rules? Is being Twitter negligent?
- arkitaip 13y agoI suspect that Twitter's response would be very different if you had a - EXPENSIVE - verified account.
- billyto 13y agoSeems like an script is using your account to grow something that looks like a valid user, then they will start spamming. Sadly, twitter doesn't care about non-famous users.
- juandg 13y agoPretty scary this new trend. They could create a replication bot and get seemingly original content avoiding deletion for spam from twitter, but still being able to inject spam in some of the tweets.
- juandg 13y agoHave you tried reporting impersonation? You can do that here: https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation
- eramirem 13y agoI have reported the issue twice, but Twitter said that since I don't have copyright on the profile picture, they do nothing.
- eramirem 13y agoThe answer from Twitter Support, they just focused on the bot account profile picture. "Hello, Thanks for providing this information. As a policy, we do not mediate user content, including images, unless it violates the Twitter Rules (https://twitter.com/rules https://twitter.com/rules). Based on this policy, we will not remove the reported image."