Twitterbot

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Compliant

What is Twitterbot?

About

Twitter's crawler for link previews

Operator

Twitter

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block Twitterbot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block Twitterbot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

TwitterbotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block Twitterbot

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /

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