The account, @wordlinator, would tweet: “Guess what. People don’t care about your mediocre linguistic escapades. To teach you a lesson, tomorrow’s word is…,” then adding the spoiler at the end. Twitter removed the account on Tuesday.
A Twitter spokesperson said the account was “suspended for violating the Twitter rules and the automation rules around sending unsolicited @mentions.” The platform’s terms of service state an account can’t be used to disrupt other peoples’ experiences using Twitter, including sending a high-volume of unsolicited replies.
Wordle is essentially a modern version of the old game show “Lingo,” in which players are given six tries to answer the correct five-letter word. Letters that aren’t in the word turn gray, letters that are in the word but in the wrong spot turn yellow and those placed in the right spot turn green.
“It’s something that encourages you to spend three minutes a day,” he said in the interview. “It doesn’t want any more of your time than that.”
-— CNN Business’ Ramishah Maruf contributed to this report.
Source : CNN