Little by little, with the passage of time, Twitter has become one of the most used social networks today, as there are millions of users who access it every day. Now, this has its positive and negative consequences, since many people, thanks especially to the platforms that allow it, take advantage of this to try to get more followers and obtain a greater reach.
Now, this can reach the point that certain users, in order to have more followers and, although it is not always fulfilled, get more views (and even clicks in the face of company websites), They pay certain platforms, a very dangerous practice that can easily destroy your reputation on the Internet, which is why Twitter has decided to put an end to all these tactics.
Twitter blocks access to its API to the most popular services to get followers
As we have been able to know thanks to the information of TechCrunch, apparently from Twitter they have tired of allowing fraudulent practices in order to get more followers in the social network in question, reason why you are blocking access to your API (used by platforms to offer their services and manage accounts), to some of the most popular platforms to get followers illegally, where we can find, among others, Crowdfire, Statusbrew or ManageFlitter.
And it is that, these services (in their great majority of payment), work in a relatively simple way but that at the same time it does not stop being quite abusive, because what they do is follow, randomly, to other Twitter users that match the applicant in question thanks to a series of algorithms, trying to get some of the other users to decide to return it and follow whoever requests it as well, and then stop following those who decide not to. And yes, as you can imagine, this violates some of the community rules of the social network, as they have communicated:
“We have decided to stop allowing these applications because they have repeatedly violated our API rules related to mass user tracking. As part of our commitment to creating an enjoyable and workable service for all, we continue to focus on rapidly reducing spam and abuse that originates from the use of the Twitter API. "
Statusbrew, one of the platforms to gain followers on Twitter that is no longer available
In this way, as you may have seen, from Twitter little by little they are trying to end all the internal problems that they have related to spam, something that has started with the blocking of these three platforms that used the API to get followers in a fraudulent way, and it is most likely that, little by little, they will disappear even more, although it is true that it will not be either an immediate process.
