Well that’s the other thing - banning the account on Twitter doesn’t make this go away. It just means people will follow them on FB or just use flightradar24 instead.
The biggest sign mentioned in the article is the insane number of tweets since the inception of the account - surely this must set off some alerts on Twitter's backend?
I know that this is an extremely difficult problem to solve and that they probably ban accounts in waves but with something as obvious as this you'd think that the ban could/should come more swiftly...
That's so embarrassing how they can remove any account. People do so many things to make their followers on twitter but if we start getting ban like this, I'm no more on twitter from now.
It appears that all automated flight tracking accounts utilizing open source data from @ADSBexchange have been banned from Twitter, including @RUOligarchJets.
That's hardly the only option. They could simply lock the accounts in question without vanishing all data associated with them. This is how bans have historically worked. The Twitter approach of hiding everything is a counterproductive anomaly.
So banning the accounts is the end result? Aren't these throwaway accounts that can be recreated in a second? It seems like a reasonable concept to filter the Tweets from getting to me in the first place, I'm guessing a "spam box" is a little too complicated for Twitter though.
IMO the bigger issue isn't getting banned, it seems the more likely scenario is having the operator of the server decide for whatever reason to shut it down. This isn't likely to happen with Twitter.
I think the article is saying Twitter banned the account at least partly as a consequence of the legislation, because they were worried about being fined.
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