Twitter guidelines about "followback" practices

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Many users has adopted the term "Reciprocity" on Twitter as the "i follow you back IF you follow me" action.

Due to contradictions, misleads in new users and abusive behavior of this practice by some users to gain followers in the platform, this problem has being in debate for a long period of time in which we believe the ultimate word and solution belongs to Twitter itself.

We want Twitter to establish a concrete and clear policy about this issue in order to inform new users about the evident assimetric nature of the followers/following platform and its impact in every users network reputation or influence.

We want Twitter to make it clear in the TOS that no such term as "Reciprocity" can be considered a "Rule" nor a "best practice", "netiquette" or "de facto standard" intended for adoption by every user in the platform.

We want Twitter to point out that the "Follow" and "Unfollow" buttons are features of choice by the user in order to build their own timeline by his own preferences and freedom and in which third parties cannot interfere or have inherence in any way and more important, that it doesnt have or imply negative or positive impacts in users reputation or social influence.

We want Twitter to forbid the practice of compulsive or courtesy followback as a manner of "being social" and to educate users about the impossibility to follow more than a certain number of tweets in a period of time in which doing compulsive followback requires soon or later that the user filters, lists or simply unfollows other users in order to set a proper and human readable timeline.
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