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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by moeffju on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:05PM (#22540297)
That is pretty spammy and, frankly, obnoxious. Not only is language constantly evolving, chances are that people didn't actually ask to be corrected (using commonly used and understood language), much less by a bot?
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by tyre on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:13PM (#22540377)
> chances are that people didn't actually ask to be corrected

If you remove the tweets that are something the parent tweet didn't ask for comment on, there would be nothing left.

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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by andrewzah on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:22PM (#22540464)
There’s a difference between not asking for a reply, and not asking for corrections for your grammar.

Correcting native speakers when they didn’t ask is obnoxious. Particularly from an automated bot.

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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by baggachipz on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:17PM (#22540418)
I freely admit I did it mostly for the lulz, but the whole point of twitter is that people are shouting into the ether. Hardly anyone "asks" for responses from other accounts. My account has as much right to post and reply as theirs did.
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by bluntfang on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:13PM (#22541513)
and your account has as much right to be banned as any other. It's clear that twitter does not want bots like that on their platform.
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