Hi I created a Twitter chatbot that responds to users if and only if the users DM my chatbot first. That is, my chatbot will only reply to users, and never DMs folks without first getting an inbound DM. Even so, I’m getting the following error when trying to reply to users’ DMs.
Error: This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.
Are DM chatbots on Twitter not permitted?
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The general use case of chat bots using Direct Messages is fine. The error message might be due to the use of specific URLs in the responses. Are you consistently attempting to send a URL in your replies?
I would say about 75% of the responses contain a URL. Not spam URLs, but URLs that make sense in the context of what the user is asking the bot about.
I should also mention that the bot was brand new (I had created it earlier that day). Not sure if that plays a factor.
Is the error happening on all responses, or some of them?
At this very moment, it’s not happening, but right now traffic is low. Yesterday, I posted in my Discord server inviting my community to DM the bot to try it out for the first time. And when a bunch of them (maybe 10 folks) tried at once, the first responses by the bot were fine, but soon thereafter, all the bot’s responses were getting blocked, even ones without URLs.
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