What Does Twitter Look At to Determine If You Are a Spammer?

What does Twitter see as spam? Could they view you as a spammer? Take a moment to read this list of what Twitter looks at to determine if you are spammy.

• If you repeatedly follow and unfollow people, whether to build followers or to garner more attention for your profile;
• If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;
• If a large number of people are blocking you;
• If a large number of spam complaints have been filed against you;
• If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account;
• If you post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #, trending or popular topic, or promoted trend;
• If you send large numbers of duplicate @replies or mentions;
• If you send large numbers of unsolicited @replies or mentions;
• If you add a large number of unrelated users to lists;
• If you repeatedly create false or misleading content;
• Randomly or aggressively following, favoriting or Retweeting Tweets;
• If you repeatedly post other users’ account information as your own (bio, Tweets, url, etc.);
• If you post misleading links (e.g. affiliate links, links to malware/click jacking pages, etc.);
• Creating misleading accounts or account interactions;
• Selling or purchasing account interactions (such as selling or purchasing followers, Retweets, favorites, etc.);
• Using or promoting third-party services or apps that claim to get you more followers (such as follower trains, sites promising “more followers fast” or any other site that offers to automatically add followers to your account);

– See more at: https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311#

From my experience if you are a brand new account I would advise you do not follow more than 25 users a day. More than that could get you flagged for aggressive following.

I see this quite often among new musicians trying to promote their music or video: If you send large numbers of duplicate @replies or mentions. Do not send the same message over and over to everyone you follow or people you aren’t even following.