The Twitter Automation Cheat Sheet

Rule of thumb 👍🏻
💡If what you’re automating may annoy your followers or other users on Twitter, you probably shouldn’t do it.

Goals 💯
🏆 To build a sustainable, repeatable, classy strategy

Disclaimer 🤖
💡Word on the street is that algorithms control most of the flagging of accounts. This means that not all accounts are created equally. For example, if your account doesn’t get much engagement and there aren’t many organic actions on the account, it’s more likely you’ll be flagged. Don’t fuck with algorithms, it’s a losing battle.
💡Lay low!

Legend
✅ Ok to do
⚠️ Not ok to do or very dangerous
👮🏻 Numerical limits (how many times you can do it)
📄 An extra note or tip

Things You Should and Shouldn’t Do When Automating Each Twitter Action

Retweets ♻️
✅ Ok
⚠️ Excessive retweets
👮🏻 Limits (guess 100–500 per day)
📄 Limits likely broken down on an hourly basis

Follow / Unfollow
✅ Follow
✅ Unfollow
⚠️ Excessive following / unfollowing (more than 50–100 per day)
⚠️ Follow / Unfollow Churn (when you follow and unfollow the same people more than once)
👮🏻Limits 1,000 per day (assuming following the rules)
👮🏻After following 5,000 the rules change
📄 Limits likely broken down on an hourly basis

Tweets
⚠️ Trending topics
⚠️ Trending hash tags
⚠️ Excessive tweeting
👮🏻 Limit 2,400 per day
📄 Limits likely broken down on an hourly basis

Mentions (@ name)
✅ Somebody mentions you first
⚠️ Unsolicited mentions
⚠️ More than one mention after somebody mentions you first
👮🏻Limits unknown
📄 I wouldn’t do this

Direct Messages
✅ Thanks for following after the user follows you
⚠️ Spam, unsolicited messages
⚠️ Promotions
⚠️ Links or excessive links
👮🏻Limits 1,000 per day
📄 Be careful

Likes
✅ Like tweets
⚠️ Excessive liking
👮🏻Limits probably 500–1,000 per day
📄 Spread it out, do it at normal hours, don’t do it a lot

Any edits you’d suggest? Let me know and I’ll add them.

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References (i’m bad at this)
https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limiting
https://iag.me/socialmedia/guides/do-you-know-the-twitter-limits/