Twitter today suspended a lot of people with legitimate Twitter accounts. It seems that I am not the only one wondering why my account @quentinnel account got suspended. I’m very sure that I haven’t violated any terms, and I certainly don’t spam. The most frustrating part of the process however is the lack of explanation – akin to a Facebook disapproved status for anyone you has done extensive advertisting with Facebook.
According to the Twitter Status blog, a [great] number of accounts were accidentally suspended due to human error. Of course the first thing I did was put in a support ticket to Twitter, but this got automatically updated to a solved status. I do use Tweetlater, which I suspect at this early stage of the process to be the cause. Twitter does state in their update: “One additional note: some the accounts suspended were using the third-party site Tweetlater. However, Tweetlater is not to blame for these suspensions nor is it in violation of our Terms.”
Perhaps it is an experiment to see how many people can live without twitter. Not many I feel! Thanks to Stay N’ Alive for the blog update http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/07/05/twitter-suspending-accounts-in-droves/.
Update: According to the latest blog post on the Tweetlater website, the issue as reported by Twitter was due to a “spam cloud”. My account has been restored, so thanks Twitter.
http://www.quentinnel.com – da best. Keep it going!
Thanks
A lot of times your account will be blocked without real cause. Twitter uses BOTS to suspend accounts.
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