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> there's probably more tolerance for weird activity

Well, my Twitter account has been suspended at least 4 times for dumb reasons or no apparent reason at all.

> nothing but suspicious spam

It was not spam. Tweeting is not spam. Tweeting a lot is not even spam. Unsolicited replies, for example, can be spam. Ben's account did not interact with anyone. There was no unsolicited interaction whatsoever.

Also, there was no violation of Twitter rules.

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Twitter has an "automation rules" [0] page which does indeed affirm that users are allowed to post "automated Tweets based on sources of outside information, such as an RSS feed, weather data, etc". But you're right, "spammy" isn't the right word since on the automation rules page and elsewhere, spam is generally understood by Twitter to be unsolicited interaction.

But the point is moot for now since Ben (AFAIK) hasn't posted any more details about the suspension note. IIRC, the suspension email is supposed to list the alleged violations, and I don't think Ben has tweeted a screenshot of that email. [1]

[0] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom...

[1] https://twitter.com/hollandcourtney/status/11255719071877242...

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