Today, we're sending warning emails to several dozen accounts that have engaged in these patterns of behavior.
In the coming days, we'll apply the "spam" label to accounts that have not stopped their patterns of automated and spammy behavior after this warning email.
There have been some gimmick accounts that have done this intentionally from the very beginning (very well knowing what theyβre doing) and gained a sizeable following as a result of bulk following users. Iβm guessing something would be done about that too. It really should be strictly discouraged.
Behind-the-scenes: We're able to better regulate spam and automated behavior on the network in part because we've deployed updated automation that helps with spam detection, as we previously shared here: