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Hey everyone,

I’m making a bot that after opting in will track the tweets a user makes and suggest improvements in grammar or spelling. This would be only in the Catalan language. I’m not sure if this is okay with the terms as it would reply without being summoned but only to users who have opted in with the option of opting out with a reply on every tweet.

Anyone know if this is allowed?

Thanks!

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I’m not twitter so it’s just my opinion - spelling / grammar auto reply bots are generally bad, and do get banned all the time - or not banned, just hidden in “More replies” so they end up invisible. However:

One way to make this work is to make sure to only directly reply to original tweets from a user that is following you, to make sure to never mention anyone that is not directly following (opting in) to the bot. Easiest way to do this is to simply ignore replies and retweets, and only consider original tweets. It’s also possible to directly reply to only the user following, and manually exclude all other mentioned users from other replies - but this is more awkward.

Another alternative is to use DMs - so any user that follows the bot, will get a DM instead of a reply. This could also work.

See also the automation rules Twitter's automation development rules | Twitter Help and pay attention to API errors and limits POST /2/tweets | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform - technically bots like this are allowed, nothing in the rules specifically bans them, but they’re hard to run effectively. But all this is just my opinion.

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I agree with Igor
Theoretically speaking, what you are saying follows the rules (opt-in), but practically, your bot is very likely to get caught in spam algorithms, and is very likely to get suspended if not demoted in the hidden replies

A DM option is far better, or you can choose to do it via email (although those have their own spam algorithm limitations )

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Thanks everyone for the replies, I guess it’s up to the algo. Merry Christmas

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