Twitter is terrible, I was just victim of one new way of spamming.
Some beard company started liking a tweet of mine because it mentioned the danish word for "beard", they then unlike it, and a day later they like it again, so daily I get a new notification from them.
Serious question: how would you expect Twitter to deal with this, at a platform level? Put in a limit on how often the "like" toggle can be triggered? Or how many times it may be triggered on and off?
I have worked programming Twitter spam bots, and depending on your behaviour using the platform, it's like you build up a score, and when you reach a certain threshold, you get banned.
Everything that triggers a notification increases your score, and certainly favouriting tweets does so--but you have to be extra annoying for you to get banned doing this.
You can also get shadowbanned, which means your interactions trigger no notifications and your tweets simply disappear from everywhere. So if you're spamming you probably want to check every once in a while if your account is shadowbanned (by triggering a notification directed to a "control" account and seeing if it goes through) but there's no way to remove a shadowban: not even disabling/reenabling your account will remove it. It expires after a few days though.
There are "hard" rate limits in place as well (amount of favs/minute), but those can be avoided by using the API key of an official app. (Don't be mistaken--you build up a "spam" score anyway.)
It's getting the notification that's the issue. This has happened to be me and I've just blocked the company, but it's still not a good experience. I think having a notification only sent once per post (even if liked and then unliked) could resolve this kind of issue.
Why would you not just block them after the second time they did that? That's such an incredibly low bar to cut off that annoyance that I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy.
The same thing happened to me (though with a water company, of all things), and that was my approach. Block on the second like and move on.
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Twitter is terrible, I was just victim of one new way of spamming.
Some beard company started liking a tweet of mine because it mentioned the danish word for "beard", they then unlike it, and a day later they like it again, so daily I get a new notification from them.
When people call them out on this behaviour, they just tell them to mute them: https://twitter.com/Golden_beards/status/793083513708961792
They have so many engineers, but they can't or won't interfere with this.
I have never been so close to delete my profile than today.
Serious question: how would you expect Twitter to deal with this, at a platform level? Put in a limit on how often the "like" toggle can be triggered? Or how many times it may be triggered on and off?
I have worked programming Twitter spam bots, and depending on your behaviour using the platform, it's like you build up a score, and when you reach a certain threshold, you get banned.
Everything that triggers a notification increases your score, and certainly favouriting tweets does so--but you have to be extra annoying for you to get banned doing this.
You can also get shadowbanned, which means your interactions trigger no notifications and your tweets simply disappear from everywhere. So if you're spamming you probably want to check every once in a while if your account is shadowbanned (by triggering a notification directed to a "control" account and seeing if it goes through) but there's no way to remove a shadowban: not even disabling/reenabling your account will remove it. It expires after a few days though.
There are "hard" rate limits in place as well (amount of favs/minute), but those can be avoided by using the API key of an official app. (Don't be mistaken--you build up a "spam" score anyway.)
It's getting the notification that's the issue. This has happened to be me and I've just blocked the company, but it's still not a good experience. I think having a notification only sent once per post (even if liked and then unliked) could resolve this kind of issue.
Just report for spam and block.
Why would you not just block them after the second time they did that? That's such an incredibly low bar to cut off that annoyance that I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy.
The same thing happened to me (though with a water company, of all things), and that was my approach. Block on the second like and move on.
Why does report-spam and block not suffice? Victim?