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Twitter suspends bot that spoils the day's Wordle solution

The bot was even replying to people's tweets about their Wordle solutions, revealing spoilers for the next day.

Meera Navlakha

on January 25, 2022

A person holding a phone with the Wordle homescreen, displaying the grid in which the daily puzzle is guessed.

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Twitter has suspended @wordlinator, a bot that spoiled the game with clues for the next day's puzzle and generally rude messages to Wordle fans.

The bot caused widespread irritation for Wordle players on Twitter, and considering that the world can't stop playing the daily word game, there were a lot of unhappy users.

People even took to their own accounts to warn people about the Wordle-ruining bot.

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With the design of the game, the bot could easily ruin puzzles. For one thing, the answer of the day is the same for everyone, so coming across the solution on Twitter would render the day's puzzle moot. Also, the key to the puzzle is in the code itself.

Twitter's Automaton Rules include not spamming or bothering users, or sending unsolicited messages. It's no surprise, then, that @wordlinator wasn't allowed to be around for too long.

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Meera Navlakha

Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture Reporter at Mashable.