What It’s Like To Be #TwitterSuspended

Original Post July 5, 2009 constantly updated

Today I was suspended from Twitter. I never thought I would utter those words, yet it’s true. I was in great company, however, please see below who was with me in my isolation.

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First: Shock. Disbelief. Terror. Sadness. Exhaustion.

I started to wonder what it would take to locate all 16k of my follow-friends and get them to follow me on my alternate account @AnitaNelson. Then I thought briefly about quitting Twitter. Was this the wake up call I needed? I even tweeted it! I felt rejected for a moment as if Twitter actually WANTED to suspend me and didn’t love me anymore.

Devastating.

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If you are suspended, here is the status update from Twitter. You should ALWAYS check “Status Blog” before taking any action. You should file a ticket with support if you have a problem that cannot be found in “Known Issues”.

Twitter has a ROCK STAR employee @delbius who freed my friends and me from banishment. Please don’t harass her, but know that you should FOLLOW @delbius more than @aplusk. She deserves a raise for this and all the other work she does from home on holiday weekends! This is not the first time she has come to my aid. I did not want to draw much attention to her, but cannot help it, in the end. So please know this is her personal account – do not bother her – if you are accidentally suspended, send her ONE @reply and include the Support ticket number if you have one to help keep duplicate requests to a minimum. PLEASE do NOT ask for RTs on any support issue or message to Delbius!

I would like to thank @PowerSellingMom for “talking me down” from my addiction to Twitter, riding through the rapid highs and lows, taking me from tears to laughter to giddiness when my account was reinstated. I will blog about what happened, um, as soon as I find out!

Here is some irony in a screenshot I took of my suspended account:

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Notice the language in the top post? That guy’s account was just fine!

I’m still not sure why our accounts were suspended today, if briefly, but rumors say it was a sp*m cloud (your guess is as good as mine) or using words in tweets like: b*t, rob*t, p*rn, sp*m, etc. Look at the fine, upstanding tweeps who were swept away with me:

@MariSmith

@williger

@LoriMoreno

@KimSherrell

@ModelSupplies

@keeperofdreams

@MattSingley

@knowsebay

@thebumpmeister

@ebooksolutions

@top100psstores

@dcb23

@StacyBrice

@SocialMediaMo

@askmarz

@TwtrCoach

@katskloset

@TransDomo

@MrSWKilgore

@strategiclife

@dahliamadison

@freeonlineradio

@darlajune

@blockbuster

@latimestot

@mtnmd

@randomsandiego

@TheLifehackPost

Please comment if you were left off this list or sign this PETITION by @MattSingley and I will update this post FREQUENTLY, so please refresh the page! See Related Article.

Mashable’s Article

UPDATE: Reposted from status.twitter.com

Restoring accidentally suspended accounts 1 day ago

Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts.

We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours.

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.

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I was going to wait to post that update, but it looks like Twitter would rather not talk about it. Hey, Twitter is free, right? So who am I to press?

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by Anita Nelson @ModelSupplies on Twitter – Follow me!