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    Tuesday, 28 July 2020

    Twitter says this new app for for copying others’ timelines violates its rules — but it may live on


    If you’ve ever wanted to know what someone else’s Twitter timeline is like, you’d have to replicate their ‘following’ list, one user at a time. In the past couple of weeks, Vicariously, a service built by entrepreneur Jake Harding, is helping people with that task automatically. 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: We love that Vicariously uses Lists to help people find new accounts to follow and get new perspectives. However, the way the app is currently doing this is in…

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