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Vicariously mimics another person’s Twitter feed using lists, but it violates Twitter rules – Yahoo Finance Australia
The app was made by Jake Harding, an entrepreneur who built it as a side project. Well, it turns out Twitter has done this themselves twice before. It sort of taught you how to “do” Twitter when everyone was learning it together.
That Vicariously app you might have seen pop up in your Twitter feed via a little viral growth hacking has run aground on Twitter’s automation rules. We reached out about it after it started spamming my feed with “so and so has added you to a list” notifications, and Twitter says that the app is not in compliance.
Updates below.
To be fair, they did also say they “love” it — but that it will have to find a different way to do what it does.
“We love that Vicariously uses Lists to help people …
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