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Asking out of curiosity Is it legal to automate tweet in twitter? I mean if twitter detects someone is doing so wont they ban them?

Edit: I Read the post properly the replies are manual not automatic so I don't twitter will have any issue with it.




It might be ok to automate tweets, but this particular service might run afoul of Twitter's spam rules

Per Twitters Rules for Identification of Spam[1]

-If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;

-If you send large numbers of unsolicited @replies or mentions in an aggressive attempt to bring attention to a service or link;

[1]https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311#


It's acceptable to automate twitter activity per the rules here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915




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