“Aggressive Following” and my Dissatisfaction with Twitter
I tried to start a new media account for viral promotion purposes. On Twitter. Because I thought that’s what the Twitter was for.
I believe, as a semi-professional blogger, that I know how NOT to spam and I also believe that I know how interact with new people online in meaningful and interesting ways. I followed 160 accounts over the course of 2 days. I was suspended almost immediately even though I had 34 posts, most of them being interactions with those people I followed.
To avoid any potential backlash (making me paranoid, Twitter and reddit, with all this banning) I have blurred the username:
Holy shit, does this piss me off.
It was just an annoyance until I tried to go through the whole unsuspension proess and it turns out the Captcha thing isn’t even working properly. [You actually need a space between the two words, a detail they should specify. I actually tried the space the first but I got a straight up Fail Whale technical error the first time.]
I’m glad Automattic and WordPress have never given me any problems. ❤ flexible and reasonable websites.
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How in the hell do they define “aggressive following”? Is it when you click the Follow button too hard, because I totally did that today.
I finally got unsuspended. Funny story, they also punish you for “aggressive unfollowing.” I want to go ahead and unfollow some tech blogs, but now I’m afraid I’ll get suspended again.
What is the allowed rate for following and unfollowing? Is the following speed limit posted on the interwebs? Can I get nookie from truck stop hooker in the direct message lounge? I must know things.
The rules they linked me to where as vague as the ones in the screenshot.
I think I tagged someone who didn’t like the post, so they reported me. I wish there was just an untag function on Twitter.
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