Hi Team!
Finally, some insight into the twitter lockouts. Recently Twitter updated their rules on automation. As it turns out, at the end of last year, they quietly began a crackdown on automated bot activity and in turn changed the rules unofficially on what was okay.
So basically our app was never broken just suddenly not welcomed!
Twitter has since broken their silence and issued an update to clarify their rules moving forward on automation and they have given developer of apps like ours a limited amount time to make changes and fall in line.
Essentially, it has to do with posting duplicate tweets accross mulitple twitter accounts in a high volume way (our retweeting). This is the fall out from of the election push back twitter got heat for.
Our developer and I are are in disscussion on what wiggle room there is for us to operate within the guidelines. I'm going to need few days to let it roll around my head! I will be back shortly!
Here is the updated language that affects us:
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Do not (and do not allow your users to) simultaneously post identical or substantially similar content to multiple accounts. For example, your service should not permit a user to select several accounts they control from which to publish a given Tweet.
This applies regardless of whether the Tweets are published to Twitter at the same time, or are scheduled/queued for future publication.
As an alternative to posting identical content, you can Retweet content from one account from the other accounts you wish to share that post from.
This should only be done from a small number of distinct accounts that you directly control.
Please note that bulk, aggressive, or very high-volume automated Retweeting is not permitted under the Automation Rules, and may be subject to enforcement actions.
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Here are links to some articles, if anyone what's to learn more:
https://mashable.com/2018/02/21/twitter-developer-rules-bots/#pp12VgJgXSq0https://mashable.com/2018/02/21/twitter-lockout-conservative-users-bots/#QQS5Lo8olqqyhttps://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2018/automation-and-the-use-of-multiple-account...