As TechCrunch reported earlier today, Twitter said that the bot is violating its automation rules, but the company has reached out to the developer to find a way: Twitter’s rules forbid anyone from automatically adding users to a list in bulk. Harding says that he’s talking to the social network’s developer relation team to prevent abuse of the bot. Vicariously’s idea and the procedure is simple: you log in to Vicariously and enter someone’s Twitter handle to replicate their follows into a fresh list that’s added to your account. What’s more, you can create lists that are unions, differentiation, and the intersection between two users’ follows. You’ll have to pay a minimal subscription fee of $2 per month to keep using the site’s features after the first free list. For now, Vicariously has added a privacy setting to prevent anyone from creating lists based on you follows. However, to enable it, you will need to log in to the website once. That is counter-intuitive and Twitter should provide an option in privacy settings to prevent someone from adding you to public lists.
- prevent others from creating lists based on your follows* prevent others from adding you to lists created through vicariously This won’t address everyone’s concerns, but it does give you control at the very least. — Vicariously (@getvicarious) July 28, 2020 Twitter rolled out an inbuilt feature to see someone else’s timeline in 2011. However, it was discontinued later. I’m keen on seeing this feature make a comeback, but with better privacy controls built-in.
