Citing rules against gaming its website, Twitter is suspending 70 accounts that have been posting content in support of US presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, says a Friday report in The Los Angeles Times.

The Bloomberg campaign has been paying people $2,500 a month to promote the candidate through weekly text messages and daily posts on their personal social media pages, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week.

The LA Times said Friday that pro-Bloomberg Twitter posts it reviewed from various accounts often used the same text, images, links and hashtags.

A spokesperson for the Bloomberg campaign said the tweets weren't meant to trick anybody.

"We ask that all of our deputy field organizers identify themselves as working on behalf of the Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign on their social media accounts," Sabrina Singh, senior national spokesperson for the Bloomberg campaign, said in an emailed statement.