Surely you have seen it before: profiles with very few followers and hardly any relevance or activity of their own, which they limit themselves to taking what others upload to the social network in turn to copy and paste in your own feed. A practice that often leads to never knowing who owns the original content of something that has suddenly gone viral. So from the company of the little blue bird -read Twitter- They have decided to stop. Guess how?
Twitter gets serious with Copypasta
We all know what copy and paste is, which to save time we define as copy paste. Well, that is exactly what they are going to do from the social network, go out to search and capture all those messages that are uploaded to the social network and that are entirely based on other who have published other profiles in their own original way.
To do this, he has published an interesting article on his blog where he comes to mark the new limits that are going to apply to those contents that qualify as “Copypasta”. And what is that? Well, according to the own words of those of (now) Elon Musk, the “attempt by multiple people to duplicate content from an original source and share it widely on social platforms or forums.”
These messages considered as copy paste They are not only text, but also any other type that Twitter supports: a photo, a video, a GIF, etc. The ultimate idea is that the next time we visit any profile, we are sure that everything we see in it is own, generated by the user and not stolen from anywhere else.
The spam problem
Obviously, this “Copypasta” that Twitter says should not be confused with such common practices as quoting another tweet or taking a text from a newspaper to amplify a message that we liked. In most cases, users of the social network who engage in this practice they do it with the intention of climbing positionsto be relevant and to transform those publications practically into spam that reaches our timeline in a recurring and annoying way.
In addition to these problems, they have another consequence that Twitter also wants to avoid, and that is that the orchestrated proliferation of this type of content are capable of “artificially amplifying their impact, suppress information [a los demás] or manipulate Twitter trends,” as well as altering “top search results and conversations across the platform.” What already supposes in itself a direct affectation to the experience of use that we receive.
What measures will you take?
With all of the above on the table, Twitter has made a number of key decisions to prevent the spread of this type of content. And they are, above all, to detect them in those cases in which what is said in an account is copied and pasted in its entirety without using the retweet or quote options in the retweet. There is only one exception to the possibility that you will be able to copy and paste if we add a part of the content of that message.
In case of incurring in this practice of «Copypasta» any of the following limitations will apply to us:
- Reduce the visibility of those messages considered clones or plagiarized from other profiles, in such a way that they will no longer appear in certain places on the social network.
- Those places are the search results, where they will not be visible, as well as in the trends.
- Tweets marked as Copypasta will not be recommended and cannot be seen in the timelines of those profiles that do not follow the account that publishes it.
- Those messages will lower your ranking within the social network.
- These messages will only be visible to users who follow the accounts responsible for posting them.
