Twitter impersonation cases are out of control

4 pointsby eramiremvor 13 Jahren8 comments

The Twitter Rules say: "Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Twitter service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others". I have detected an account (very likely to be a bot) that is posting exactly the same tweets I post, with 5-minutes delay; including mentions and pictures, which mislead people who is being mentioned. That is clearly an impersonation case, but Twitter says that they don't mediate user content UNLESS it violates the Twitter Rules.

Doesn't a bot that replicate your tweets violate the Twitter Rules? Is being Twitter negligent?

4 comments

eramiremvor 13 Jahren

The answer from Twitter Support, they just focused on the bot account profile picture.

"Hello,

Thanks for providing this information. As a policy, we do not mediate user content, including images, unless it violates the Twitter Rules (https://twitter.com/rules). Based on this policy, we will not remove the reported image."

juandgvor 13 Jahren

Have you tried reporting impersonation? You can do that here: https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation

eramiremvor 13 Jahren

I have reported the issue twice, but Twitter said that since I don't have copyright on the profile picture, they do nothing.

juandgvor 13 Jahren

But it's not just the profile picture, it's replicating your tweets too, right? That's got to count for something.

eramiremvor 13 Jahren

yeap, still no solution from Twitter Support. That's frustrating.

billytovor 13 Jahren

Seems like an script is using your account to grow something that looks like a valid user, then they will start spamming. Sadly, twitter doesn't care about non-famous users.

juandgvor 13 Jahren

Pretty scary this new trend. They could create a replication bot and get seemingly original content avoiding deletion for spam from twitter, but still being able to inject spam in some of the tweets.

arkitaipvor 13 Jahren

I suspect that Twitter's response would be very different if you had a - EXPENSIVE - verified account.