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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.
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
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
The summary was poorly written, the accounts were banned mostly for copying the content and posting it as their own (think 9GAG).
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
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.
If Twitter realized that retweets are stupid they should just remove the feature instead of penalizing people who use it.
I love the excessively simplistic attitude people take. Retweets are in general fine, that doesn't mean they can't be abused.
Spam is abouse of email, but that doesn't mean email should be banned.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
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...
These accounts weren't retweeting. They were straight-up copypasting original jokes from other accounts. They've been a bane of Twitter for years and the platform is now slightly less terrible because of this move.
...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.