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Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves By Andrew_Peel

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Jul 05, 2009

Summary

Twitter seems to be on a role lately. It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. You can see all the action, semi-real-time here.

I just received a tip from a good friend, a very strong Twitter user and definitely not a spammer, who was one of those people suspended without cause. She stated she submitted a ticket to Twitter support and the ticket was immediately closed with no reason. Looking over Twitter search, she’s not the only one, and many very valid accounts are complaining of having their Twitter accounts suspended out of the blue. Reasons for suspension are often following people and unfollowing people frequently, following people too fast, blatent spammy behavior, among other things, but based on the users I know were suspended none of these activities were happening.

There is no word from Twitter on this matter - I’ll update the post when I hear more. You can watch the suspensions and the horror occur in real-time (thanks to F

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Comments (2)

Sumanth,

Jul 06, 2009

that's not fair

Vegetarian,

Jul 06, 2009

Finishing 'Friend is a Verb' PowerPoint talk (Friday 3:30 pm) for 35th Annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest at U Pitt in Johnstown PA. I'll mention this in my talk.