twitter algorithm experiments?

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Hello, I have been auto posting to twitter for many years using 3rd party services.

As many have noticed, recently twitter has gotten a lot tougher. I can guess as well as anybody, my question is: Has anybody done any experiments?

I have lost hundreds of aged accounts recently dating from 2008-2015, some had thousands of followers. Also had a bunch of purchased pva accounts restricted within 2 days of starting to post.

Here are a few questions regarding exactly what the twitter algorithm might be looking for:

frequency of posting - I have been posting hourly but will be switching to every 12 hours. My bet is this is the biggie, hourly used to be ok but maybe not any more

email address - are they looking at the domain names for email addresses? I don't think so but that's just a guess

duplicate content - that's been known a long time, my 3rd party service doesn't post if my api/rss script duplicates

date of setup - if multiple accounts are setup and/or changed and/or start posting same day

source of posting - if a 3rd party service is still in business, seems like that should not be a problem

purchased pva accounts - if they use the same phone twice? if they are from certain countries?

links within a post - if they are pointing to the same domain or a group of domain names?

links in general - if every post has a link? That might be an issue too, although that's the whole point of auto posting.......

Any ideas welcome, questions too!

Cheers, Mike
 
Hello, I have been auto posting to twitter for many years using 3rd party services.

As many have noticed, recently twitter has gotten a lot tougher. I can guess as well as anybody, my question is: Has anybody done any experiments?

I have lost hundreds of aged accounts recently dating from 2008-2015, some had thousands of followers. Also had a bunch of purchased pva accounts restricted within 2 days of starting to post.

Here are a few questions regarding exactly what the twitter algorithm might be looking for:

frequency of posting - I have been posting hourly but will be switching to every 12 hours. My bet is this is the biggie, hourly used to be ok but maybe not any more

email address - are they looking at the domain names for email addresses? I don't think so but that's just a guess

duplicate content - that's been known a long time, my 3rd party service doesn't post if my api/rss script duplicates

date of setup - if multiple accounts are setup and/or changed and/or start posting same day

source of posting - if a 3rd party service is still in business, seems like that should not be a problem

purchased pva accounts - if they use the same phone twice? if they are from certain countries?

links within a post - if they are pointing to the same domain or a group of domain names?

links in general - if every post has a link? That might be an issue too, although that's the whole point of auto posting.......

Any ideas welcome, questions too!

Cheers, Mike

What have you found out so far?
 
Looks like posting every 3 hours is OK. Seems like the algo hits every so often. The only decision I made is to not give a phone number before they ask for it. If I volunteer the number at setup, they often require a phone/text verification later, and if it is a one-use number, it's SOL. Seems like if they require a phone at setup, that's it, they don't require it again except there have been a couple exceptions to that rule. So far I have setup 100+ new accounts with very little attrition. If the algo goes on a rampage again, I may have a different viewpoint.
 
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