The San Francisco-based social network also said it would not allow people to use software to simultaneously perform other actions such as liking or retweeting from multiple accounts. Today, we’re clarifying our rules on automation using multiple accounts, as well as removing any possible ambiguity created by our own implementations. Posting identical messages to multiple accounts, or simultaneously retweeting or liking a message from multiple accounts, could help vault something into Twitter's trending list, giving a false impression of how viral it is among real people. Twitter has cracked down on other violations of its terms of service, including fake accounts by people inflating their following. Twitter blocked me from twitter ads last night and purged thousands of followers.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2018 13:30 UTC