Posted on Mon, Nov. 09, 2009

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It's against the rules to retweet your tweets

By Bridget Carey

McClatchy Newspapers

I sometimes hear folks talk about how they like to re-post a tweet from the morning again in the afternoon, just in case someone missed the message before.

Don't do that.

It's against Twitter's terms of service, and they consider it spam. If you're scanning Twitter's terms, you might miss it, because it's just a quick bullet point on how you can get crosswise with your tweets:

* "If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account."

Twitter reached out to the SocialOomph service this week to remind them that repeated tweets are against the rules — they add to the clutter and won't be tolerated. If you haven't heard of SocialOomph before, it's a tool that lets you set your tweets to be sent at specific times, track keywords, or use other tools — like auto direct messages. One of those services was to auto repeat your earlier tweet.

Here's what Twitter said to SocialOomph, according to SocialOomph's blog:

"Recurring Tweets are a violation no matter how they are done, including whether or not someone pays you to have a special privilege. We don't want to see any duplicate tweets whatsoever. They pollute Twitter, and tools shouldn't be given to enable people to break the rules."

SocialOomph is taking off the feature.

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