The originating post is total speculation.
If you think that bulk unfollowing is the sole culprit to suspensions,
then you're not following Twitter closely enough. It takes two to
tango. In this case, churn can correctly be described as the process
of blind bulk/auto following and blind
Re: as well as following and unfollowing those who don't follow back
I think we all know what Twitter means with this. They are protecting
against the practice of building a follower list by following a bunch
of people, waiting to see who follows back, then bulk unfollow those
who did not follow
What?
Re: as well as following and unfollowing those who don't follow back,
are both violations of our terms of service.
What gives Twitter the right to dictate who you want to follow or not?
That is like Gmail saying you can't remove contacts from your contacts
list. When I signed up it
The way I read the actual text it suggests that following and then
unfollowing in a short period of time is the violation...not that you
can't unfollow someone who didn't follow you. In fact, isn't
following someone who doesn't want to follow you back a form of
stalking for some people? I've
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Vision Jinx vjn...@gmail.com wrote:
What?
Re: as well as following and unfollowing those who don't follow back,
are both violations of our terms of service.
What gives Twitter the right to dictate who you want to follow or not?
That is like Gmail saying
you knew that was going to happen. How about bulk follows, if that its done
in a thoughtful way?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Twitter's new site, http://business.twitter.com, under the heading
Best Practices, the following is listed as a
Think about a bot who just bulk follows random people, it then would
kept track of users who didn't blindly or automatically follow back and
dump them quickly and try following another batch of users so that it
wouldn't bust it's follow ratio limit. Using this strategy a bot could
eventually
What gives Twitter the right to dictate who you want to follow or
not?
Its their service. They can dictate what they want. Their playground,
their rules. The ToS clearly says they can alter their terms at any
time and if you don't want to comply you can leave.
That being said, this is to
Thanks for the comments RandyC and Joshua Perry!
I just started a Twitter account so I could develop free Twitter apps
and tweet things I thought my friends would find interesting and in a
short period of time I gathered a few followers (more then I actually
expected). I don't know the twitter
