Twitter's Platform manipulation and spam policy

commercially-motivated spam, that typically aims to drive traffic or attention from a conversation on Twitter to accounts, websites, products, services, or initiatives;

inauthentic engagements, that attempt to make accounts or content appear more popular or active than they are;

coordinated activity, that attempts to artificially influence conversations through the use of multiple accounts, fake accounts, automation and/or scripting; and

coordinated harmful activity that encourages or promotes behavior which violates the Twitter Rules.

use of stock or stolen profile photos, particularly those depicting other people;

use of stolen or copied profile bios; and

use of intentionally misleading profile information, including profile location.

You can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts or by coordinating with others to violate the Twitter Rules. This includes:

overlapping accounts – operating multiple accounts with overlapping use cases, such as identical or similar personas or substantially similar content;

mutually interacting accounts – operating multiple accounts that interact with one another in order to inflate or manipulate the prominence of specific Tweets or accounts; and

coordination – creating multiple accounts to post duplicative content or create fake engagement, including:

posting identical or substantially similar Tweets or hashtags from multiple accounts you operate;

engaging (Retweets, Likes, mentions, Twitter Poll votes) repeatedly with the same Tweets or accounts from multiple accounts that you operate;

coordinating with or compensating others to engage in artificial engagement or amplification, even if the people involved use only one account; and

coordinating with others to engage in or promote violations of the Twitter Rules, including violations of our abusive behavior policy.

selling/purchasing Tweet or account metric inflation – selling or purchasing followers or engagements (Retweets, Likes, mentions, Twitter Poll votes);

apps – using or promoting third-party services or apps that claim to add followers or add engagements to Tweets;

reciprocal inflation – trading or coordinating to exchange follows or Tweet engagements (including but not limited to participation in “follow trains,” “decks,” and “Retweet for Retweet” behavior); and

account transfers or sales – selling, purchasing, trading, or offering the sale, purchase, or trade of Twitter accounts, usernames, or temporary access to Twitter accounts.

sending bulk, aggressive, high-volume unsolicited replies, mentions, or Direct Messages;

posting and deleting the same content repeatedly;

repeatedly posting identical or nearly identical Tweets, or repeatedly sending identical Direct Messages; and

repeatedly posting Tweets or sending Direct Messages consisting of links shared without commentary, so that this comprises the bulk of your Tweet/Direct Message activity.

“follow churn” – following and then unfollowing large numbers of accounts in an effort to inflate one’s own follower count;

indiscriminate following – following and/or unfollowing a large number of unrelated accounts in a short time period, particularly by automated means; and

duplicating another account’s followers, particularly using automation.

aggressively or automatically engaging with Tweets to drive traffic or attention to accounts, websites, products, services, or initiatives.

aggressively adding users to Lists or Moments.

using a trending or popular hashtag with an intent to subvert or manipulate a conversation or to drive traffic or attention to accounts, websites, products, services, or initiatives; and

Tweeting with excessive, unrelated hashtags in a single Tweet or across multiple Tweets.

publishing or linking to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware) or computer or to compromise a person’s privacy (phishing); and

posting misleading or deceptive links; e.g., affiliate links and clickjacking links.

using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account;

posting links without commentary occasionally;

coordinating with others to express ideas, viewpoints, support, or opposition towards a cause, provided such behavior does not result in violations of the Twitter Rules; and

operating multiple accounts with distinct identities, purposes, or use cases. These accounts may interact with one another, provided they don’t violate other rules. Some examples include:

organizations with related but separate chapters or branches, such as a business with multiple locations;

operating a personal account in addition to pseudonymous accounts or accounts associated with your hobbies or initiatives; and

hobby/artistic bots.

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If the platform manipulation or spam offense is an isolated incident or first offense, we may take a number of actions ranging from requiring deletion of one of more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s). Any subsequent platform manipulation offenses will result in permanent suspension.

In the case of a violation centering around the use of multiple accounts, you may be asked to choose one account to keep. The remaining accounts will be permanently suspended.

If we believe you may be in violation of our fake accounts policy, we may require you provide government-issued identification (such as a driver’s license or passport) in order to reinstate your account.

operating accounts where the majority of behavior is in violation of the policies described above;

using any of the tactics described on this page to undermine the integrity of elections;

buying/selling accounts;

creating accounts to replace or mimic a suspended account; and

operating accounts that Twitter is able to reliably attribute to entities known to violate the Twitter Rules.