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Twitter Suspends Numerous Popular Accounts That Are Known For Stealing Tweets (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Continuing its battle against the "tweetdeckers," Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known for stealing tweets or mass-retweeting tweets into manufactured virality. @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code/@reiatabie, Common White Girl/@commonwhitegiri, @teenagernotes, @finah, @holyfag, and @memeprovider were among the accounts that got swept up in the purge. Many of these accounts were hugely popular, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers. In addition to stealing people's tweets without credit, some of these accounts are known as "tweetdeckers" due to their practice of teaming up in exclusive Tweetdeck groups and mass-retweeting one another's -- and paying customers' -- tweets into forced virality. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on individual accounts, but BuzzFeed News understands the accounts were suspended for violating Twitter's spam policy.
The original twits still aren't deprived of their inane bloody tweets, they've still got them insofar as you can really own anything that's in the sodding cloud. The suspended accounts were plagiarising tweets: copying them without attribution.
Words matter; the headline made it sound like they found some sort of vulnerability in Twitter allowing them to move tweets to different accounts.
They should be suspended just for contributing to an environment where terms like 'viirality' come into existence.
1. BuzzFeed -> need I say more?
2. Twitter -> Seriously, need I say more?
Twitter is, has always been, and will always be, a 100% PR/propaganda site, for those PR and midlife crisis people who believe it's where the "cool" young "hip" people are, but where really them and only them live. Even the young girls there are just such people pretending to be them. And every famous person there is either a "managed account" or somebody who wants to be "cool" and precisely doesn't know what is.
And BuzzFeed is a site that out-HuffPo’d and out-FoxNews’d both Fox News and Huffington Post in their clickbaity bullshittery. They are the epitome of fake news. Their logo is literally what you find in the dictionary when you look up "fake news" or "clickbait".
And since BuzzFeed now has appeared multiple times here, I highly suspect Slashdot is now nothing more than a husk, put on by the likes of BuzzFeed, to disguise themselves, when raping your brain yet another time.
Complete, total, and utter psychopathic insanity.
Everyone involved should be expelled to Siberia or Arizona and shot on the first attempt of re-entering the human world! Including me and you due to having been tainted.
You have plagiarized a common first post and your /. account will be suspended.
Ezekiel 23:20
Maybe YouTube will follow suit with videos...
You would want a hack that moves followers, or at least links.
Many users on twitters do automated Re-tweeting based on specific hash tags. If they give proper credit to the original tweeter will it still be considered spam? How do they define the boundary?
SHIT loads!!
Man, you just hate that Twitter is more important than your unfavored Linux Distro, don't you?
In todays world, Twitter news like this is actually very relevant to nerds and even stuff that matters...
That's right, Twitter matters, take that as you will but it's true in todays world.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That's kind of ironic, though, in the light of the fact that you're just shitposting as an AC and contribute even less value.
I agree with you about BuzzFeed but Twitter still has practical use. I still get useful links and other information daily from the various people I follow - all of it technical, as I try not to follow anyone overtly political, and much more concise than Facebook could ever be.
Twitter, like any other tool, is useful if you use it correctly....
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The cryptocurrency and Elon Musk stories are coming. Be patient.
If Twitter realized that retweets are stupid they should just remove the feature instead of penalizing people who use it.
Wish there was a mod point for laughable irony.
The sad fact is that if social media loses viral impact beyond kitty pics, their stock prices will sink into the abyss from whence it came.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
you say that like that would be a bad thing. failing to see sadness if social media loses viral impact.
The headline did what? Wow. Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, evidently.
It would be fine by me. Other people seem lost without it, and unable to think for themselves. I don't see any renaissance re-occurring after the bad actors leave, either.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Twitter is just a blog with a pointless artificial limit on posts.
Take *any* other blog, e.g. as an RSS feed, look only at the headlines, and you got twitter. Done.
Or use and modern IM, with public groups. Done.
Twitter is not a thing necessary on this planet. AT ALL.
Any other public text posting service has it included in its entirety.
And no, ALL posts on Twitter are PR and propaganda. Your "is useful" is about as out of touch with reality, as the North Korean believer in his "great leader", or the US American believer in his "free market" or supposed "democracy".
There is no such thing as a valid use of Twitter.
It's hot as fuck there! So hot you can't even leave your car that you need between your house and some shop.
And Siberia is cold as fuck.
A prison in Siberia is as bad as a prison in Arizona.
What else did you think I could mean?
I confess I didn't even know that "stealing tweets" was a thing. O Brave New World...
Alrighty then, I guess I'll go yell at some kids to get off my lawn after Matlock is over.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
... if social media loses viral impact beyond kitty pics, their stock prices will sink into the abyss from whence it came.
If there was a Kickstarter I could donate to that would cause social media to fail spectacularly and disappear, I'd put in some money.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Guess that explains my aversion for memes now. They're all feeling forced, as if the one making them can't express themselves properly.
Especially when it comes to templated memes.
...as Bitcoin is to economies.
Fortunes are gained and lost on something that is intrinsically without value.
Reputations are gained and lost through shallow, ill conceived, and impetuous statements that, without social media, would have never been expressed.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
...if it is something that is completely worthless?
Mr Musk ks not rhe leader in AI so he wants regulations and calls it worse thsn nukes. OK, aai have my doubts about that but he probably knows way more thsn me about the subject so who knows hemight be genuinly concerned for non buisness reasons