Many people create accounts for their pets, which I think is odd but they do, and to be funny I created a Twitter account for my computer. It’s just a fun little project that I thought would be neat to let the computer itself actually run the whole account. So I’m using the API with bash and PHP scripts to post random stuff. It’s currently programmed to post jokes, Linux tips, memes, and internet speed tests that it will either brag or complain about depending on the results. Comcast has actually commented on all the complaints, kind of funny.
The problem is configuring all these different options have required me to constantly test the scripts and make sure that they’re working and that in turn has led to me being banned from the search results. At least I assume that’s why I’m banned. Is there any way to rectify this? I went to the rules and can’t find anything that I’m doing that breaks the rules. However, the debug process could be seen as spamming. Most of the tweets that I post while debugging I delete. For the most part the script runs on its own through Cron on my system. It posts one of four random things every 2 hours. I cut it down to 2 hours between 6am and 10pm to cut down on the number of tweets.
Eventually I want to configure it to actually do automated responses to people who make comments but I’m not going to have any followers if I’m banned from the search results. 
. Any tips that could help?
@JustALinuxBox
it could be the anti spam systems, but mostly i think it might be that your account is very new - less than a week old, so it might not have been indexed yet. Also, posting the same hashtags over and over also looks spammy.
A good thing to do is to make the bot account unambiguously identify itself s a bot - in the name / description - with a link to your main account if there is one.
Check out https://botwiki.org/learn/ for more good bot practice
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