Twitter's Platform manipulation and spam policy

You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupts people’s experience or platform manipulation defenses on Twitter.

We want Twitter to be a place where people can make human connections, find reliable information, and express themselves freely and safely. To make that possible, we do not allow spam or other types of platform manipulation. We define platform manipulation as using Twitter to engage in bulk, aggressive, or deceptive activity that misleads others and/or disrupts their experience.

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

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

leveraging Twitter’s open source code to circumvent remediations or platform defenses.

You can’t mass-register Twitter accounts or use automation to create Twitter accounts.

Twitter allows users to create and/or operate up to ten (10) accounts for different, non-duplicative purposes. Users who already own or operate more than ten accounts will not be impacted by these new limits unless a violation of the Twitter Rules takes place. Some examples of what Twitter considers to be non-duplicative uses include:

In addition, users are allowed to control multiple accounts on behalf of a third-party (e.g. “Social Media Managers”), provided that no violations of the Twitter Rules (including this policy) occurs.

Twitter may approve exceptions to multiple account limits at its discretion.

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:

operating multiple accounts that interact with the same or substantially similar content or Twitter account(s) in order to inflate or manipulate the prominence of content and/or accounts; for example:

Do not create multiple accounts to engage with the same tweets, accounts, or polls

Do not create multiple accounts to boost or amplify one of your own accounts by misusing engagement features (likes, retweets)

Multiple accounts that exhibit a pattern or sole purpose of the preceding behaviors may be suspended by Twitter. Users operating multiple accounts are still subject to all other Twitter Rules, particularly our rules surrounding Platform Manipulation and Spam, and Ban Evasion. Any other violations of the Twitter Rules may also result in all of your accounts being suspended.

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.

Misuse of Twitter product features

You can’t misuse Twitter product features to disrupt others’ experience. This includes:

Tweets and Direct Messages

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

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; and

Tweeting an existing phrase or content in a duplicative manner, whether individually or in concert with other accounts. Learn more in our copypasta and duplicate content policy.

Editing Tweets

editing Tweets to artificially amplify content or deceive people. Examples include, but are not limited to:

using a Tweet's existing engagement to amplify substantially different content (e.g. editing a Tweet from “What’s better? Pancakes or waffles?” to “Thousands of people trust my service. Like my post and subscribe to my channel to get tips on investing”)

editing media (e.g. images, videos, audios, gifs, or URLs hosting relevant content) so the Tweet is meaningfully or entirely different or irrelevant to the previous versions.

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

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

exploiting Twitter’s open source code, including the logic behind visibility filtering or ML Model training, to circumvent policy enforcement for violations of Twitter Rules.

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

Anyone can report accounts or Tweets via our dedicated reporting flow. These reports are used in aggregate to help refine our enforcement systems and identify new and emerging trends and patterns of behavior.

Select Report Tweet from the icon.

Select the option that best tells us how the Tweet is suspicious or spreading spam.

Select Report Tweet from the icon.

Select the option that best tells us how the Tweet is suspicious or spreading spam.

Limiting the visibility of Tweets

Tweets which we believe to be in violation of these policies may not appear in certain parts of the Twitter product, and/or may not be recommended or amplified by Twitter. Learn more about other instances when a Tweet’s visibility may be limited.

Tweet deletion and temporary account locks

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.

Temporary loss of access to Twitter features or products

We may temporarily limit or restrict access to Twitter features or products, including (but not limited to) Tweets, Edit Tweet, Direct Messages, Spaces, Communities, or Live.

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