Comments on: Your Account Has Been Suspended

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:46 +0000

No plans to move this site at all Carolyn. Thank you for including it in your book! ~Susan

By: Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Carolyn Howard-Johnson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:15:19 +0000

Susan, I am using the URL to this article in a book I am writing. I hope you don’t plan to do anything drastic like move it, delete it, or change it! (-: Please contact me at hojonews@aol.com if you have questions.
Carolyn

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:03:42 +0000

Max, good luck with getting your account reinstated. It’s important to not only submit that support ticket, but continue to follow up with them. Twitter really doesn’t want to eliminate good accounts. Many accounts get caught in their ‘spam’ alerts incorrectly. ~Susan

By: Max

Max — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:42:14 +0000

Thanks for this exhaustive explanation and you insights, Susan. Very helpful. I’ve had an acocunt suspended, enquired, but haven’t heared. I’ll open the ticket again and re-request an explanation.

Your point about the free Twitter tools is well taken. This could put a very large number of tweeple in the dog house.

Happy weekend

Max

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:58:42 +0000

Maralyn, Ingrid, and Jackie – thanks for stopping by and adding to the conversation.

Ingrid, the API programs that I think you want to approach very cautiously are not the desktop apps like Tweetdeck and Seesmic, but those programs that promise massive follower increases and require you input your login and password; and, even some seemingly benign helpful resources. When you give them your information, your account is no longer secure. What can you do if you have signed up for some of these? Change your password and they should no longer have access!

~Susan

By: Jackie Gamber

Jackie Gamber — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:27:19 +0000

Good insight and great advice. It’s a necessary reminder that Tweeting is a privilege. Although privilege/right will become even more muddied if Twitter starts charging for it.

By: Ingrid King

Ingrid King — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:09:40 +0000

Thanks for this great article – and I’m so glad that Penny Sansievieri got her account back. What a nightmare!

I have a question on one of the points you mention in your post. When you talk about API’s that connect to your account, are you talking about apps such as We Follow or Mr. Tweet, or are you talking about desktop apps such as Tweetdeck or Seesmic? And if you’re already using an API that required your sign in and password, what do you recommend?

Thanks!

By: Maralyn D Hill

Maralyn D Hill — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:07:26 +0000

This is a great article. Thank you for covering Twitter TOS so thoroughly.
Maralyn D. Hill
http://www.noralyn.com