No More Mass Following?

Could the days of often annoying auto accounts, and so called ‘Twitter bots’ be over? It seems that Twitter wants to take action against such accounts if a recent developer email is to be believed. The message in full detailed how the use of various third party applications to gain followers would result in the offending account possibly being suspended.

Doug Williams of Twitter revealed that Twitter was planning to take action on such unavailing accounts. He detailed the processes that a large number of these accounts take, for example an account will start by following a large mass of individuals and benefit from the social connections made, but then if an individual does not reciprocate the follow back, the connection is then broken. Through gaining a large number of mass followers via this method an inaccurate portrayal of the offending account’s legitimacy is depicted, which on a whole degrades the Twitter experience for all.

Are auto follow tools a bad thing, are you sick of auto direct messages, and do you want less ‘noise’ on Twitter?