UPDATE: It seems that as of about 8:00 p.m. my twitter account was restored as were most of the thousands of others that were "accidentally suspended" due to human error. That caused quite a commotion in the twittersphere!
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This afternoon, I was working on a project and was checking out a client's blog. When I tried to retweet one of her blog posts I saw an alarming notice on my @DeniseWakeman twitter profile:
What the ??? Only a few minutes before I had sent a tweet.
I immediately went to Twitter's support page and submitted a support ticket. I got an auto reply with the following info:
If you are suspended, it's most likely for one or more of these reasons::
User Abuse
* a large number of people block the profile or write in with spam complaints
* aggressive following
* imbalanced ratio: the number of followers is small compared to number of people following
* misuse of the reply feature
* updates consist of duplicate links and/or text
* updates consist mainly of links and not personal updates
* updates consist of updates poached from others' timelines, passed off as one's own
Technical Abuse
* updates consist of links pointing to phishing sites, malware, or other harmful material
* a large number of accounts is created in a short amount of time
* an account is identified as belonging to a spam clusterWhen this happens, we suspend the account for investigation and hide the contents from the public view in order to remove the cause of complaint.
Looking at this list, the only thing I can see that may be a problem is that I post links to my blog posts on two different twitter accounts.
I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens. So, in the meantime, will you please follow me on my @BlogSquad account? I don't want to lose touch with my twitter friends!
