From tomorrow, Friday March 23rd, Twitter will make a few changes and content on the platform may now be shared differently.
The social media company first made the announcement that it would be making some changes to two of its major applications; TweetDeck and Twitter API (for developers and programmers) in January 2018. The decision was inspired by the need to curb the spread of malicious information ahead of big elections that may affect the world like that of the United States of America.
To help ease confusion on what will and will not be allowed on the platform, we’ll be sharing a few tips on how the new rules will affect users, what they can and cannot do.
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- Users cannot post the same content on multiple platforms. If a Twitter user manages two accounts, crossposting the exact same content on both accounts will no longer be allowed.
- Users can no longer send bulk, aggressive or high volume tweets, retweets or automated tweets on multiple platforms at the same time.
- Users can no longer use owned multiple accounts to follow, like or retweet one account at the same time.
- Persons cannot send multiple updates to a trending topic to manipulate or inflate the prominence of the topic from multiple owned accounts.
- Using applications that can post similar content to push a specific hashtag on multiple accounts is no longer allowed.
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- Users can still share tweets and have multiple accounts retweet them.
- Applications can cross-post alerts from other services such as RSS to only one account on Twitter
- All rules do not apply to weather conditions or natural disasters. Which means if there was an earthquake, Twitter will allow users post warnings on multiple platforms at the same time.
Not to be a party pooper, but if you don’t comply with these rules, Twitter may take some enforcement actions or suspend some of your accounts.
We kinda already see these new rules affecting a few, if not everyone’s Twitter usage. So, get with the program, people!