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<\/p>\nThe Tweetdeckoning is nigh.<\/p>\n
Continuing its battle against the “tweetdeckers,” Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known for stealing tweets or mass-retweeting tweets into manufactured virality.<\/p>\n
@Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code\/@reiatabie, Common White Girl\/@commonwhitegiri, @teenagernotes, @finah, @holyfag, and @memeprovider were among the accounts that got swept up in the purge.<\/p>\n
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Many of these accounts were hugely popular, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers.<\/p>\n
In addition to stealing people’s tweets without credit, some of these accounts are known as “tweetdeckers” due to their practice of teaming up in exclusive Tweetdeck groups and mass-retweeting one another’s \u2014 and paying customers’ \u2014 tweets into forced virality.<\/p>\n
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on individual accounts, but BuzzFeed News understands the accounts were suspended for violating Twitter’s spam policy.<\/p>\n
Tweetdecking, as it’s called, is an explicit violation of Twitter’s spam policy, which does not allow users to “sell, purchase, or attempt to artificially inflate account interactions.”<\/p>\n
Still, Twitter has previously struggled to crack down on these accounts.
\nAfter a BuzzFeed News story uncovered the practice of tweetdecking in January, Twitter announced new spam-fighting changes to Tweetdeck, including removing the ability to simultaneously retweet a tweet across multiple accounts.<\/p>\n
“Tweetdecking is over. Our follower gains are gonna diminish,” Andrew Guerrero, a 23-year-old tweetdecker in New Mexico, told BuzzFeed News after Twitter announced the changes in February. (Guerrero asked that his account name not be disclosed since it could get him suspended.)<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, tweetdecking has persisted. No longer able to mass-retweet with a single click in Tweetdeck, many deckers have gone analog, manually DM’ing requests for a “RT 4 RT.”<\/p>\n
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\nA DM that Andrew Guerrero sent another tweetdecker manually requesting to trade retweets.<\/p>\n
This certainly isn’t the first time tweetdeckers have been suspended, and it’s unlikely to be the last. However, Friday’s mass suspensions were unprecedented in their scope; some of the suspended accounts, including @Dory and @GirlPosts, had amassed millions of followers.<\/p>\n
Temporary suspensions are par for the course for deckers, and most get right back in the tweet-stealing game \u2014 sometimes on the same account after getting reinstated, and sometimes on entirely new accounts.<\/p>\n
According to Twitter’s rules, violating the spam policy is grounds for permanent suspension. (As is creating a new account to evade a permanent suspension.)<\/p>\n
So, will these suspensions be permanent, or will these deckers return to deck again? Only time will tell \u2014 but until then, the “#TweetdeckIsOverParty” goes on.<\/p>\n
tweetdeck is OVER, we did it ladies, we defeated local twitter \u202a#TweetDeckIsOverParty\u202c<\/p>\n
All the tweet deck acts have been suspended<\/p>\n
dory, common white girl, holyfag, finah, and tons of other tweetdeck accounts got suspended<\/p>\n
“Tweetdecking” Is Taking Over Twitter. Here’s Everything You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Twitter Is Trying To Kill “Tweetdecking.” Here’s What You Should Know.<\/p>\n
BuzzFeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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