End of Twitter Trolls? News Rules Will Actively Fight Copy-Pasted Tweets from Bots, Other Spam

Equally office of its ongoing efforts to purge imitation accounts and fight automated spam bots, Twitter has appear a bunch of new guidelines that it believes will be successful in cut down the spread of simulated news and politically motivated propaganda that has and so dominated the social media landscape over the past couple of years.

Announcing the changes, Twitter's trust and safety manager Yoel Roth said the company has made changes to Twitter and TweetDeck to limit identical posts across a big number of accounts.

According to Roth, users will henceforth non be immune to mail service "identical or substantially like" content across multiple accounts at one time, nor will they be allowed to 'like' or 'retweet' messages from multiple accounts at one time.

Users, withal, volition still be able to tweet using third-role services, but they will now exist limited to a single account going forrard. So while legitimate companies and organizations posting conditions alerts, news updates and other useful info will have nothing to worry about, the new guidelines are expected to audio the death-knell for services that allow batch tweets and retweets from multiple accounts. It could also stop sustained misinformation campaigns which frequently are centred around the same tweet copied past many accounts.

"As a sole exception to this rule, applications that broadcast or share conditions, emergency, or other public service announcements of broad customs interest (for example, convulsion or tsunami alerts) are permitted to post this content across multiple accounts who have authorized an app".

The fake news controversies in the lead-upward to the 2016 Presidential elections in the United states of america might have opened the proverbial can of worms, but the scanner has since shifted to automated bots and spammers of all sorts, including recent reports of how celebs are buying fake followers to increment their value in the world of social media.

The news came to light afterward The New York Times published a detailed investigative written report on a company chosen Devumi that it said controlled a whopping iii.v million bot accounts, which were sold as 'followers' to willing customers, prompting the New York Attorney General to open up an investigation on the matter.