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[Lucien Bechard Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 4]

Head's up for all you Twitter fans out there.

If you have several Twitter accounts make sure you don't send duplicate Tweets between them or your accounts will get suspended.

It doesn't matter if all your Tweets are legit, Twitter doesn't approve of this.

A duplicate tweet is when you send the same tweet between accounts.

Let's say you were in Amway/Quixtar/Artistry and had 3 separate Twitter accounts promoting all 3.

Let's say your Tweet was something like:

Artistry has the best cosmetics in the world.

Twitter doesn't want you taking this tweet and posting this exact tweet to all 3 accounts even though they are a part of each other.

Each tweet needs to be separate to each account. It's kind of silly since all 3 businesses are intertwined, but if you do this, they will ban your account.

So each account needs to have their own tweets.

If you get suspended by Twitter, it's for a minimum of a week with no exceptions.

You can apply for reninstatement after the 1 week but they will shut you down completely.

Best advice:

Go slow on the followers, if you do automatic tweets make them very far and few between and make sure you don't have duplicate tweets between accounts.

Also, since each twitter account needs a separate email account, you can get additional free accounts through Gmail.

Sorry Guys! Twitter is really cracking down.

[Bridget Johnson Contribution Level: 2]

I barely know how to use Twitter. Thanks for the info about them cracking down. I might have innocently done something like this following someone's advice.

Gotta love all the help you get here on BN

[Vicki Berry Company: Lyoness Contribution Level: 3]

I wonder if they feel the same about quotes? Those are so generic and though my content between two Twitter accounts is different, sometimes I use the same quotes between the two.... I bet Twitter wouldn't care what it was as long as it was a duplicate string (which begs the question, if you have Tweets with similar content but not worded the same would you get by with that?). What would be nice is if Tweetlater allowed you to split your saved draft tweets between two accounts instead of lumping them together.

[Joel Matthews Contribution Level: 1]

I think this is only if you use something like TweetDeck and they all go out at once, which would annoy anybody, maybe you could just use RT if you find yourself in this conundrum.

Joel.

[Kim Williamson Contribution Level: 2]

Yep, that last regarding re-tweets makes alot of sense since I haven't heard anything bad about re-tweets. Thank you for the info on twitter though. I'm glad I just have one account. Been awhile since I've been in here kinda nice to be back around.

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 9]

Yeah the work around for this is to do a RT (retweet). Go a step further and work behind multiple local and international proxies.

Basically though, if you follow by the rules and don't try to "play" the system, you won't have anything to worry about.

I would think by now people would start to understand that if you are in this for "long term" profitability, then you need to employ "white hat" strategies in your marketing. Playing the "grey hat" area is fine as long as you create buffers between those strategies and your money properties.

If you are going to do "black hat" ops, then you had better make sure your money properties are perfectly safe guarded AND be prepared to lose any one of your black hat positions at a moments notice... ie. it shouldn't hurt your business in any way when you do. And I use the word "when" because eventually you will. Which is perfectly fine... just don't be stupid about it and point black hat directly to the web properties that put food on your table.

Twitter and Google both laid down the hammer recently on the ones who were stupid. Let it be a lesson.

Make sense?

[Bridget Johnson Contribution Level: 2]

Richard:

Great point. I guess because I'm still new I haven't personally figured out to do grey or black yet. But you're right - play by the rules. Rules were created to protect and help everyone.

If you're truly trying to help people and build a following of people that you can help and not try to make a buck off of then you shouldn't have any problems and shouldn't get removed from the list.

However, with that said, people do try to play the system and hopefully when they lose the crap shoot they still have someplace safe to go.