In this post are 5 things that can get you banned on Twitter.
This social networking app has 206 million daily active users worldwide — businessofapps.
Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service that allows users to post and interact with messages known as “tweets”.
Logged-in users can post, like, and retweet tweets. On the other hand, unregistered users have the ability to strictly read tweets that are publicly available.
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Tweets were initially limited to 140 characters. However, the limit was doubled to 280 for non-CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages in November 2017. Audio and video tweets stay unchanged at 140 seconds for most accounts.
Using Twitter is nice. But there are cases when you may get banned from using it. Here are 5 things that could get you banned from using Twitter:
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a) Firstly, defamation
Twitter’s Terms of Service clearly prohibit sending messages that appear to be from Twitter. Therefore, getting the Twitter logo and using it in your own emails is violating its terms and conditions.
Furthermore, creating an account pretending to be another person is another misuse of Twitter’s public tools and features. This makes it a bannable violation.
Be authentic.
b) Secondly, doxxing
Doxxing is the practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifying information (especially personally identifying information) about an individual or organization — happens mostly on the internet.
For Twitter’s case, it could involve using features and tools that you have not been given access to. Nevertheless, Twitter also prohibits using public features and tools in malicious ways.
Twitter’s Terms of Service particularly point out using the service to do things like spread viruses. Additionally, it includes “doxxing,” or, sharing personal identifying or location information of other people without their permission or consent.
Do not dox.
c) Thirdly, posting hateful content
Twitter includes “hateful” content in its list of sensitive media. Even so, “Hateful conduct” is also its own category of content that promotes violence against a person or group of people.
“Violent threats” are one of only two actions that result in “immediate and permanent ban” of an account.
Be peaceful on Twitter.
d) Fourthly, accessing restricted areas
Whereas the first place that you look might be Twitter’s Terms of Service, most of these are things that the ordinary person is not likely to do on accident.
Such include things like deliberately hacking Twitter, or “accessing, tampering with, or using non-public areas of the Services.”
In brief terms, “no accessing Twitter through backdoor channels meant for developers.” Although it is very achievable to find a backdoor on accident, Twitter asks that in this event you report the issue to them so that they can fix it.
Stay away from non public areas.
e) Lastly, posting intimate media
Twitter’s documents recognize a difference between “private” content and “sensitive” content. Twitter defines “sensitive media” as violent or adult content.
There are some places where this content cannot be shared at all, and some content may be so sensitive that it is not allowed anywhere on Twitter.
However, accounts have more leniency in these matters for artistic or documentary purposes if they manually mark their accounts as sensitive.
Do not post intimate tweets.
The above are 5 things that can get you banned from Twitter.