The San Francisco messaging platform said the move was intended to rid the service of spam-spewing automated accounts, and not aimed at people using the service according to the rules. “Bulk, aggressive, or very high-volume automated retweeting” is also banned, along with using multiple accounts to perform automated actions at the service such as following people, Roth said. Keeping Twitter safe and free from spam is a top priority for us,” a Twitter spokesperson said. The cause was an ongoing effort to “identify suspicious account behaviours that indicate automated activity” or other policy violations, a Twitter spokesperson told AFP. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube unblocked across PakistanAnd, despite conspiracy theories that quickly gained traction at Twitter, the service denied any political bias.

Source: The Express Tribune February 22, 2018 03:45 UTC