San Franciso sources stated that one of the most common spam violations is the use of multiple accounts and the Twitter developer platform to artificially amplify or inflate the prominence of certain tweets. The company said "Twitter prohibits any attempt to use automation for the purposes of posting or disseminating spam, and such behavior may result in enforcement action”.
Meanwhile the company is making changes to Tweet Deck and the Twitter API to limit the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts. Users of Tweet Deck will no longer be able to select multiple accounts through which to perform an action such as tweeting, re-tweeting, liking or following.
Twitter said "If your app or service includes
features which allow users to perform simultaneous actions across multiple
accounts, you should make changes to bring it into compliance with this policy
by March 23. Please note that bulk, aggressive, or very high volume automated
re-tweeting is not permitted under the Automation Rules, and may be subject to
enforcement actions”.
