New Delhi: The micro-blogging platform said on Tuesday that consistently tweeting or sending only links as Direct Messages, posting similar content across multiple accounts and sending a large number of uninvited replies are some of the things that are considered as "spammy behaviour" on Twitter.
Twitter India shared a detailed note by a top Twitter executive, defining what spam is and what the company is doing to make internet a safer space for the users. Twitter said, "platform manipulation, including spam and other attempts to undermine the public conversation" is a violation of its rules.
Creating duplicate or very similar accounts, creating fake accounts, posting multiple updates to try and manipulate Twitter trends, purchasing or attempting to artificially increase followers, re-tweets and "likes" too are seen as spam, said a post by Twitter's Kathleen Reen.
Twitter which found itself in the middle of a controversy for not sending its CEO to appear before a parliamentary panel on Monday, said that it is "working hard" to expand its team and resources to help tackle the spread of misinformation on its platform.
On Monday, Twitter said in a blog post, "Attempts to deliberately undermine the public conversation by spreading misinformation at scale, is something we care deeply about at Twitter".