Twitter took down an account that was spoiling the results for the online word game Wordle by automatically replying to their tweets with future answers, ruining the game for anyone who saw them.
The account was deactivated last week because it violated Twitter’s rules regarding sending a high volume of unsolicited replies, mentions, or direct messages.
Note: if you like tweeting your wordIe scores, someone’s made a bot you should block as it auto-responds with tomorrows answer pic.twitter.com/u62kBaTivn
— dan nguyen (@dancow) January 24, 2022
Twitter said in a statement that the spoiler bot account, @wordlinator, was “suspended for violating the Twitter rules and the automation rules around sending unsolicited @mentions.”
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Wordle is a popular online game in which users get six chances to guess a five-letter word. Many players share their scores from the game on Twitter using colored block emojis to show the letters they got right.
The randomly generated five-letter word is the same for all users, and it refreshes every day. Players talk online about the daily answer without revealing it to others in order to preserve the fun for those who haven’t played yet.
However, the bot account would respond to players tweets with snarky messages along with sending them the answer for the next day’s game.
“Guess what. People don’t care about your mediocre linguistic escapades,” the @wordlinator account tweeted at someone who shared their daily score. “To teach you a lesson, tomorrow’s word is …”
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The bot was able to find the next day’s answers because the game’s source code is public, and one can use it to reverse-engineer the algorithm for future answers, as some software engineers have done.
