Permanently Suspended on Twitter. Now what?

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Anonymous wrote:The water’s fine on Truth Social. Come on in.

There are too many candy bars floating in that water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serves you right if you were flooding Twitter with MAGA propaganda

This was my first thought.

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I’m suspended from Twitter too and I’ve NEVER even posted. I followed like 15 people (none with radical or controversial ideas). My suspension makes zero sense. I’ve appealed and heard nothing back.

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maybe ya';ll have names like other people who do violate? I have a common name that's on the do not fly list which is a pia

[Anonymous]

Dump Twitter

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Move on with your life OP. I don’t know anyone who still uses Twitter.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a Twitter user for well over a decade. 4k followers. I do not post there often but started to use it more during the pandemic bc it seemed like the best way to get info about schools, local politics. Suddenly in 2022 my account was suspended. For “platform manipulation and spam”. I appealed multiple times. Seriously this must be a mistake. I’m a 40 yr old mom with absolutely zero bad behavior. I finally got a response to my appeal this week. “Your account was permanently suspended due to violations of our Terms of Service. After reviewing for reinstatement your account will not be restored.” What? Why? I just don’t get it.

I tell myself it’s not a huge deal to not have Twitter… but then I remind myself it kinda is… our school shares news on Twitter that I’m missing… I’m in the process of starting a business and social media is an important marketing tool.

There is no reason why I should be suspended. Esp permanently! I’ve never received even a warning. Then sudden permanent suspension?! What can I do? Anyone have advice?

Were you using large number of hash tags? I've see that cause problems particularly if they all appear to be not really related. That will get you flagged for spam/platform manipulation.

I have around 1000 followers on a personal account and am one of two who have control of a parody account with 30k followers but only mainly tweet once a year for a special occasion - I have a particular hashtag that I follow that becomes very popular but only once a year, seasonally. When that happens, and it begins to trend, the spammers and platform manipulators come out and start abusing it. Then, what we the people who are following this hashtag and don't appreciate the spam, we conspire and gang-flag/report these hashtag abusers/spammers. Many of them end up getting banned, at least temporary; some may get permanent bans.

If you want back on, as others have said, just get another email address and create a new account. Otherwise, look at it as a sign and move on with your life - you're probably better off, to be honest.

[Anonymous]

Twitter is basically irrelevant now

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a Twitter user for well over a decade. 4k followers. I do not post there often but started to use it more during the pandemic bc it seemed like the best way to get info about schools, local politics. Suddenly in 2022 my account was suspended. For “platform manipulation and spam”. I appealed multiple times. Seriously this must be a mistake. [/b]I’m a 40 yr old mom[b] with absolutely zero bad behavior. I finally got a response to my appeal this week. “Your account was permanently suspended due to violations of our Terms of Service. After reviewing for reinstatement your account will not be restored.” What? Why? I just don’t get it.

I tell myself it’s not a huge deal to not have Twitter… but then I remind myself it kinda is… our school shares news on Twitter that I’m missing… I’m in the process of starting a business and social media is an important marketing tool.

There is no reason why I should be suspended. Esp permanently! I’ve never received even a warning. Then sudden permanent suspension?! What can I do? Anyone have advice?

Yeah, being a 40 year mom means that you couldn’t have possibly done anything wrong. Also, it’s more likely that you’re an 18 year old troll.

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Your business should have its own, separate account anyway. So set one up with a new email and probably new IP address as well.

And no school should be depending on Twitter, of all things, to announce news. Surely they also have, gasp, a web site? Or send e-mails? I can't believe any school, at least not a public one, would use Twitter alone for anything that needed to get out to ALL parents. If the PTA uses it as the communication of choice, that's crappy, since many people aren't on it and have zero desire ever to get on it--especially now. Tell the school (or PTA if that's what you mean) they need to use other platforms too.

Don't waste energy being angry about the suspension. Probably your account was hacked somehow or they mistook you for someone else. It's not personal though it feels that way. Some algorithm flagged you and no human being there gives a damn about correcting a bot's work.

I'm not OP, but I am a mom who has experienced "needing" social media, including Twitter, to get information for my kids. Not the school itself, but my oldest's high school XC team coach communicated exclusively through Twitter. That was how anything about practice, team photos, when to arrive at school for the bus to the meet, etc.--all communicated through Twitter.
My other kid is on the high school football team and messages to parents is done primarily through facebook and another messaging app called "Remind."

It's frustrating, because I'd really rather quit social media--but it would make it a lot harder on my kids.

[Anonymous]

You know what you did on the bird app lady.

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Anonymous wrote:Something doesn't track here. 4k followers isn't a lot but it's way more than the sort of user OP is describing would have. Occasional poster who only started using more frequently during the pandemic, and largely uses it to follow school and local news? That sort of Twitter user will wind up with 300-400 followers typically. Maybe if they have a large network that is very online (perhaps work in a field where having a Twitter account is common), they could have up to 1k or so.

But 4k? I don't think so. I know some minor DC "celebs" who don't have that many followers, including people who are very involved in DC politics or culture, tweet daily, and are followed and retweeted by ultra-popular local accounts like Popville and Barred in DC. A lot of NOT minor DC celebrities only have 10-15k followers. OP is a 40-yr-old mom who doesn't post often and has a narrow range of interests? Nope, either that's not an accurate description of your Twitter activity, or you are lying about your followers, or you bought a bunch of bot followers for your account (perhaps in anticipation of launching your business), and that's precisely why your account was flagged and suspended.

Look, Twitter suck since Elon took over and with his new verification policies, it's probably going to be over soon. So it's not some great loss. And I wouldn't put it past Elon's Twitter to make some boneheaded decision about suspending an account, either. But something about your story doesn't make sense. The follower account and the claimed Twitter behavior don't track, and no one uses Twitter as their main source of school info, that's bonkers. There is something missing from this story or you are changing a key piece of information that would make more sense. I'm guessing you got suspended for a reason, miss it terribly for reasons that have nothing to do with schools, and are looking for sympathy here. I don't buy it.

+1 million to this. 4k followers is not something that happens organically and the root of your suspension most likely lies in how you got to that number.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m suspended from Twitter too and I’ve NEVER even posted. I followed like 15 people (none with radical or controversial ideas). My suspension makes zero sense. I’ve appealed and heard nothing back.

Unfortunately I suspect that your lack of even one post made some algorithm decide your account was a bot or spam account and not a real person. It's too bad but probably what happened. I bet there are others out there like you who just wanted to follow and not post, who have been axed.

I long thought about getting a Twitter account and never posting, just to follow specific people on Twitter, and am glad I didn't bother (you can still see people's tweets even without an account, you just can't get notifications they're posted a tweet etc.).

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Anonymous wrote:
Your business should have its own, separate account anyway. So set one up with a new email and probably new IP address as well.

And no school should be depending on Twitter, of all things, to announce news. Surely they also have, gasp, a web site? Or send e-mails? I can't believe any school, at least not a public one, would use Twitter alone for anything that needed to get out to ALL parents. If the PTA uses it as the communication of choice, that's crappy, since many people aren't on it and have zero desire ever to get on it--especially now. Tell the school (or PTA if that's what you mean) they need to use other platforms too.

Don't waste energy being angry about the suspension. Probably your account was hacked somehow or they mistook you for someone else. It's not personal though it feels that way. Some algorithm flagged you and no human being there gives a damn about correcting a bot's work.

I'm not OP, but I am a mom who has experienced "needing" social media, including Twitter, to get information for my kids. Not the school itself, but my oldest's high school XC team coach communicated exclusively through Twitter. That was how anything about practice, team photos, when to arrive at school for the bus to the meet, etc.--all communicated through Twitter.
My other kid is on the high school football team and messages to parents is done primarily through facebook and another messaging app called "Remind."

It's frustrating, because I'd really rather quit social media--but it would make it a lot harder on my kids.

I hate crap like this -- requiring people to get accounts on specific platforms. Used to be "You need Facebook, that's how we'll post all information" and now it's "You have to have Twitter to see crucial stuff like what time to arrive for the bus" etc. I'd do it if I had to but I'd want to rip that coach a new one. A group of us parents resisted when one of my kid's extracurriculars was going to post information exclusively on Facebook -- the organization backed down and used both Facebook and a simple website. A lot of the parents did not want to get onto FB. So glad now that I didn't get onto Facebook since I know people whose accounts have been hacked or who now are concerned about what Facebook does with their personal information etc. I get it -- if that coach is going to communicate only on Twitter, you don't have much choice. But I think it's a jerk move to dictate social media accounts as essential for information about an activity for which you're paying.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m suspended from Twitter too and I’ve NEVER even posted. I followed like 15 people (none with radical or controversial ideas). My suspension makes zero sense. I’ve appealed and heard nothing back.

Unfortunately I suspect that your lack of even one post made some algorithm decide your account was a bot or spam account and not a real person. It's too bad but probably what happened. I bet there are others out there like you who just wanted to follow and not post, who have been axed.

I long thought about getting a Twitter account and never posting, just to follow specific people on Twitter, and am glad I didn't bother (you can still see people's tweets even without an account, you just can't get notifications they're posted a tweet etc.).

I'm a pp that said her kids' high school sports teams communicated to parents through social media. When my son was on XC I had a twitter account, but I haven't been on it since he graduated a few years ago--I can't even remember my log in info.

When I've tried to look at people's twitter pages, not logged in to my own account, Twitter usually only lets me look at a few of their tweets and then shuts me down-saying I have to log in to view any more.