Twitter announced several significant changes in their terms of service (TOS). The new Twitter rules impact all users and social media automation tools and will be enforced starting March 23th, 2018. We will explain what's changing and how the new Twitter rules will impact your social media marketing and scheduling practice. And, we will also show you what you can do about it.

To make sure our users are in compliance with the new Twitter policies, we will also be introducing a couple of adjustments we have applied and will continue to apply to Blog2Social. However, we will make sure to provide you with many great features for your Twitter marketing in accordance with the new Twitter rules, now and in the future.

Spambots and fake news have become a major problem for Twitter over the last couple of years. The flooding of fake news by fraudulent accounts has shown to influence elections, manipulate public opinion, and even destabilize democracies. This malicious practice is used by fraudulent governments as well as by shady businesses:


“One of the most common spam violations we see is the use of multiple accounts and the Twitter developer platform to attempt to artificially amplify or inflate the prominence of certain Tweets.”
This is why Twitter is placing a couple of new limitations on what users are allowed to do when using social media automation tools for auto-posting and scheduling. Enforcing these limitations, Twitter means to eliminate messages sent by fraudulent bots. However, these limitations will impact all Twitter accounts. This means, many common and effective marketing practices are no longer allowed, even if they rely on totally legitimate Twitter users and legitimate contents. So please make sure to familiarize yourself with the new rules and follow them carefully. By violating the new Twitter rules you risk that Twitter will suspend or even close your account.