Randomly suspended from Twitter.
Wow. I went to check twitter and noticed I had been suspended, so I logged into my other two twitter accounts and noticed I was suspended there as well. I composed the heartfelt email below and sent it and immediately noticed I was reactivated already. Wierd.
Help. My twitter accounts have been suspended. I don't know that I've violated anything. I read the why am I suspended page and it all seemed to point to spam or name squatting.
I'll describe what I've done, but I can assure you there was no negative intent. I love twitter and I was using it I thought in the way it is intended to be used or in the way that is morally wrong or anything.
Here's my story. I registered a couple accounts to start. I can't remember why, but I believe I got one variation of my name, but I didn't really use twitter, then when I decided to come back and try again I couldn't remember my login. I didn't even remember having it, but I was searching for myself one day to see where I show up in results and I found the duplicate. My personal account, which is @htyoung (www.young757.com) is purely legit and is just me tweeting to friends (or anyone who decides to follow me) and following my favorite celebs basically, or people who followed me when I felt like following them back or people I like (like sexy women or newpapers).
A while later I noticed while redesigning my two blog sites that Wordpress has a plug-in for Twitter. I assume this isn't a problem since Twitter seems fairly open (there are lots of programs for using twitter, one of which isn't receiving my tweets on my phone right now). I had a brainstorm. The way the plug-in works is that it allows you to have it either tweet when you post entries to you blog, tweet a weekly digest of blog updates or other options that really make sense as a way to integrate Twitter with a blog. It then made sense to me. I could use Twitter as a way to give whoever my audience is on the blogs a way to know when I write something new and keep coming back, as well as tweet me to get in touch with the blog author. To me this just seems like a logical use for twitter to create a community of my blog readers. Plus, due to the fact that at the most, I only blog 3 times in a month (once is normally it), it actually wouldn't tax the system as much as my personal twittering.
But the problem arose with keeping the audiences seperate. I could add my personal twitter account to the plugin for both, but then people looking for the political opinion blog (@BlaqRepublican www.differentwaytothink.com) would hear about technology stories (@Suffolk757 www.suffolk757.com) and vice versa. Also, in the name of keeping the blogs semi professional looking, I didn't want the readers getting tweets that I was thinking about having some brandy at 2am or that I was mad that Jack Bauer got sick on 24. To me, it made sense to have my personal tweets about anything related to me, and an account to keep my political opinion readers updated, and one for my technology crowd. Basically twitter became a replacement for RSS because it seems more likely that someone reading my blog would decide to follow it on twitter, than subscribe to the RSS feed and use a reader for it.
The final move was to cross follow the accounts so that although the tweets went to followers of each account seperately, if someone should happen to be viewing my timeline in say my personal account they might notice I've written an article about Linux and decide to follow that account and read the article. It seems like a good way to promote three distinct things (my political blog, my personal life, and my technology blog) seperately, yet have it so if the followers are really followers they may see that I updated one of the other two things and decide to check it out.
I would hope that this usage of the system isn't considered wrong. It's not like I'm signing up for 2,000,000 accounts with a bot so I can beat Ashton Kutcher. I'm just doing what seems to be one of the fundamental reasons twitter is so popular. I'm finding a new way to use twitter to enhance my web community. I'm pretty sure my pawltry following on the blogs and on twitter isn't taxing the server much. I've posted exactly 3 blog updates since installing the twitter plug-in for word press. I hope you understand my situation and help me out. My two major addictions right now are Facebook and Twitter, and now I'm down to one of them when I'd probably be tweeting about basketball).
Oh, one more thing, I do use Ping.fm (and sometimes pingdroid) from time to time to tweet. I don't know if that's accepted, but it seemed like it would be. I just wanted a way to tweet and update my status on facebook and myspace from time to time when I want to post the same message to all three. Please feel free to follow the links to my three websites to get a better understanding of the situation. I'm a 29 year old IT student and blogger from VA, not a Russian hacker trying to get ready to SPAM the whole world.
Help. My twitter accounts have been suspended. I don't know that I've violated anything. I read the why am I suspended page and it all seemed to point to spam or name squatting.
I'll describe what I've done, but I can assure you there was no negative intent. I love twitter and I was using it I thought in the way it is intended to be used or in the way that is morally wrong or anything.
Here's my story. I registered a couple accounts to start. I can't remember why, but I believe I got one variation of my name, but I didn't really use twitter, then when I decided to come back and try again I couldn't remember my login. I didn't even remember having it, but I was searching for myself one day to see where I show up in results and I found the duplicate. My personal account, which is @htyoung (www.young757.com) is purely legit and is just me tweeting to friends (or anyone who decides to follow me) and following my favorite celebs basically, or people who followed me when I felt like following them back or people I like (like sexy women or newpapers).
A while later I noticed while redesigning my two blog sites that Wordpress has a plug-in for Twitter. I assume this isn't a problem since Twitter seems fairly open (there are lots of programs for using twitter, one of which isn't receiving my tweets on my phone right now). I had a brainstorm. The way the plug-in works is that it allows you to have it either tweet when you post entries to you blog, tweet a weekly digest of blog updates or other options that really make sense as a way to integrate Twitter with a blog. It then made sense to me. I could use Twitter as a way to give whoever my audience is on the blogs a way to know when I write something new and keep coming back, as well as tweet me to get in touch with the blog author. To me this just seems like a logical use for twitter to create a community of my blog readers. Plus, due to the fact that at the most, I only blog 3 times in a month (once is normally it), it actually wouldn't tax the system as much as my personal twittering.
But the problem arose with keeping the audiences seperate. I could add my personal twitter account to the plugin for both, but then people looking for the political opinion blog (@BlaqRepublican www.differentwaytothink.com) would hear about technology stories (@Suffolk757 www.suffolk757.com) and vice versa. Also, in the name of keeping the blogs semi professional looking, I didn't want the readers getting tweets that I was thinking about having some brandy at 2am or that I was mad that Jack Bauer got sick on 24. To me, it made sense to have my personal tweets about anything related to me, and an account to keep my political opinion readers updated, and one for my technology crowd. Basically twitter became a replacement for RSS because it seems more likely that someone reading my blog would decide to follow it on twitter, than subscribe to the RSS feed and use a reader for it.
The final move was to cross follow the accounts so that although the tweets went to followers of each account seperately, if someone should happen to be viewing my timeline in say my personal account they might notice I've written an article about Linux and decide to follow that account and read the article. It seems like a good way to promote three distinct things (my political blog, my personal life, and my technology blog) seperately, yet have it so if the followers are really followers they may see that I updated one of the other two things and decide to check it out.
I would hope that this usage of the system isn't considered wrong. It's not like I'm signing up for 2,000,000 accounts with a bot so I can beat Ashton Kutcher. I'm just doing what seems to be one of the fundamental reasons twitter is so popular. I'm finding a new way to use twitter to enhance my web community. I'm pretty sure my pawltry following on the blogs and on twitter isn't taxing the server much. I've posted exactly 3 blog updates since installing the twitter plug-in for word press. I hope you understand my situation and help me out. My two major addictions right now are Facebook and Twitter, and now I'm down to one of them when I'd probably be tweeting about basketball).
Oh, one more thing, I do use Ping.fm (and sometimes pingdroid) from time to time to tweet. I don't know if that's accepted, but it seemed like it would be. I just wanted a way to tweet and update my status on facebook and myspace from time to time when I want to post the same message to all three. Please feel free to follow the links to my three websites to get a better understanding of the situation. I'm a 29 year old IT student and blogger from VA, not a Russian hacker trying to get ready to SPAM the whole world.
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