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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by techaddict009 on Friday May 09, 2014 @09:41AM (#7720756)
Asking out of curiosity Is it legal to automate tweet in twitter? I mean if twitter detects someone is doing so wont they ban them?

Edit: I Read the post properly the replies are manual not automatic so I don't twitter will have any issue with it.

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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by drazion on Friday May 09, 2014 @11:37AM (#7721424)
It might be ok to automate tweets, but this particular service might run afoul of Twitter's spam rules

Per Twitters Rules for Identification of Spam[1]

-If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;

-If you send large numbers of unsolicited @replies or mentions in an aggressive attempt to bring attention to a service or link;

[1]https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311#

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Re:How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my... by jebus989 on Friday May 09, 2014 @09:53AM (#7720818)
It's acceptable to automate twitter activity per the rules here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915
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