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@lcmiller9 DM any that follow. Vary wording/send timing fairly widely. Sorry for reply delay http://bit.ly/OOOOPS
We can do as referenced but since we are targeting our fundraiser to the NFL, teams and players this will take an extraordinary amount of time. There are actually 2 versions being sent out, each with a separate link. The tweets vary primarily because of minor changes that are made to the original message to accommodate the length of the recipient’s name. We are in Haiti, with frequent electrical outages and due to needing funding swiftly, I would like to get our “tweets” out quickly. As a new tweeter user, I THOUGHT we were not doing anything wrong but the duplicate content messages, caused our accounted to be suspended twice…I imagine for spamming.
Of course, I am fearful ogf tweeting now for fear that our account will be suspended again. Therefore can you please be very specific as to how we can get our fundraising message out as quickly as possible. Please specify time intervals as well.
Does twitter make exceptions since we are an entity and this is fundraising. Most of the players and teams have twitter addresses hence our reason for tweeting versus e-mails.
Thanks in advance for your help.
You would most likely need to work with the official league organizations to reach the members or representatives of the league in such a way for them to see your message.
One reason would be that popular accounts don’t read most of their tweets. So just managing to create a tweet with the username of someone you want to reach has a low chance of them reading it, or even seeing it. So Twitter for that and other reasons is a very, very poor place to reach popular people or organizations in bulk.
Also, entities such as Twitter, Google, etc. have a policy to NEVER give spam rules because that would amount to providing public guidelines that spammers can then abuse. So there are not and will NEVER be specific rules for how to avoid being suspended for spam. There are however general guidelines, avoiding repeated similar tweets being one of the primary ones.
Twitter has no policy of making exceptions to their rules for any type of account. Also, the only way you might contact them to request an exception is through a partner (an advertiser). No single entity has ever managed to get any kind of exception like this from Twitter to my knowledge. Also, Twitter support and most employees are currently on vacation until January 3.
You could also use multiple accounts, but as you would have to create them anew, and spam standards are more stringent for new accounts, it would likely not help much.