Dear People Who Game Twitter For Followers: It’s Over.

Twitter has announced that they will be going after these individuals and deem their accounts spam. These individuals game the system by using scripts, software that follow thousands of people a day and unfollow anyone who doesn’t follow them back. It’s a grey-technique called churning followers. So that dude who’s a Realtor from Florida? The dude who has 3 videos on YouTube and calls himself an “SEO maven”? That 64 yr old grandma from Utah who says she’s a social media expert because she has 30 thousand followers?

All done by software.

This has been going on for years on YouTube as well…people who scrape accounts, have refreshers… the list goes on.

(via tremendousnews / @stevegarfield / @murnahan)