So for some reason I have been suspended from Twitter. It happened last week and I have no clue what I was suspended. I am not a bot (although Twitter seems to love bots, maybe not being is a bot is why I was suspended?), I do not pull the follow-unfollow game (although that seems to be a viable strategy as those people/bots seem to thrive), and I don’t seem to do anything that violates their vague TOS. I simply use Twitter to engage with followers and people I am following and share interesting content. I guess that is not what Twitter wants.
Time to start anew with a more Twitter compliant profile
Apparently being an engaged Twitterer who shares content with friends and followers is not what the Twitter gods want. Obviously I’m not a celebrity so I can’t become the type of Twitterer that the powers that be most want which is obviously the mundane day to day details of B-list celebrities. Since I can’t do that I need to find another Twitter approved persona. I suppose I could go with the Google Alerts spraying route and just use Twitter Feed to pollute the Twitter stream with press releases and the other garbage that shows up in Google Alerts. That would take time to sign up for thousands of Google Alerts and I don’t want that. After all that would require some effort and Twitter doesn’t seem to like anyone who puts any sort of time or effort into their Tweets. I could always go with Sponsored Tweet route and annoy all of my followers with useless schills for products and services that I never use but pay me a pittance for whoring myself out. Naahh, that would be really fucking weak. What to do?
Time for a bot?
Apparently a bot is the way to go. In fact, instead of just creating a single bot I will create 1,000’s of bots on 1,000’s of different topics and just go crazy. After all, Twitter seems to love bots and if one somehow gets suspended (not likely) I still have an army out there doing my dirty work. And I can always create new bots to infiltrate the Twittersphere.
Or Twitter could stop suspending engaged users
There has been a spate of Twitter suspensions recently. A number of engaged and interesting Twitter users have been suspended for seemingly no reason, myself included. All the while the bots, schills, and b-tarded celebrities pollute Twitter with their nonsense. Apparently it seems that this is what Twitter wants so if I want to get back into the good graces I have to become one of the chosen ones. Unless Twitter makes a change and allows engaged and meaningful Twitter users to thrive instead of the pollution they seem to love I will be forced to create a mass network of bots to remain a part of the community. Or I could just quit… Nahh I don’t want to do that.
Update: Jill Whalen just informed that I may have been suspended because I linked to a Google scam site. I linked to the site in an attempt to expose them for being complete asshole scammers but it may have tripped a filter for linking to a scam. I have updated my support request ticket at Twitter and will report the details when I hear back.
Update 2: This update is a lot late in coming but my Twitter account was reinstated when after I explained to the Twitter Gods that I inadvertently tripped the scam filter. Be careful with your links on Twitter because it appears they have a quick trigger on these things, which is probably not a bad idea all things considered.
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