Why do people get suspended from twitter

You can complain but finding their email address is so hard though I understand why. Fantastic article! Several months ago, I actually reached the 2,follower mark on Twitter and Twitter said that I reached that limit in a big way.

You should only strive to follow people within your niche who empower you, you can empower, or people who possess both of those traits. Thanks for a great list. I have to admit I went a little crazy with the follows when I first started. Thanks again for the info. My pleasure Samantha. Marc only just seen this post today good regeneration of content strategy BTW.

Great tips and advice. Based on what you are doing, your account will be safe. Twitter mainly enforces that rule on people who create numerous accounts i. You are providing value and engaging with your audience so your accounts will be safe. The rules seem fair, although I might have been guilty of using favorites too much.

Thanks for the information Marc. My pleasure John. Favoriting the tweet makes the person imply you are grateful, and for some people, favorites are easy to miss. Some great safety tips here — as an Affiliate Marketer I always play by the rules and you make mention of engaging with your audience which is key.

Yes, engagement will always be key. Engagement allows us to understand our customers, and no matter how much we advance, that knowledge will always be important for businesses. Just followed link from Twitter posted a couple of hours ago. My impression with favorites on Twitter was that the daily limits were comparable to how many tweets you could put out.

All best wishes. Thank you Katharine. Although favoriting is the preferred method, it is more effective to interact with your audience. Besides, the word social is in social media. Great post, Marc! There were a few things I learned from it, such as favoriting too many tweets. Thanks for your insights! My pleasure. Favoriting tweets was definitely something that shocked me when I first saw it.

This usually applies to the people who are favoriting dozens of tweets every day. My recommendation is to only favorite tweets every day because if you force yourself to not favorite tweets, you are also going to force yourself to have more conversations with your followers which is a good thing.

Very interesting. I am surprised that they dont mention suspending the accounts of people who insult, threaten and curse. Ive had to block many nutcases because of this. Also many tweets never give you a comment or a reply no matter what you say…just wondering if these REAL James Woods accounts for example are manned by robots.

They are either done by bots or people who wish they were James Woods. Accounts like these exist for all celebrities and famous people. Very handy advice there, and concisely structured, thanks for posting it. Fingers crossed! Before you actually go there, make sure you get your story straight. Everyone makes mistakes. But if you do and especially if you knew about it before you made them own up to them. This form gets checked by an actually human being.

These people get to check these forms all day long all year round. Be honest. Show sympathy and own up your mistakes. They have automated systems and sometimes they pick out the wrong people to suspend. They will unsuspended your account. Fortunately for you, Twitter makes building an online presence simple,.

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So, yeah, who cares! The timing is just rotten, though. But even then, if they decide not to respond to my emails, like they did in the past 3 weeks, who cares, right? I am using TweetAdder too with mulitaccounts.. Sorry to hear about your problems with the twitter….

Sorry to hear the bad news regarding your Twitter account Ana. I am more convinced than ever that all of the social networking sites. I have been banned on a couple of the major Article directory and video sharing websites.

For using automation. But even after you take all of this into consideration. The TOS on all of these sites are heavily stacked against the user. Because you are not paying to use their service. So ultimately they can do what they want. A blog like mine is pretty much impossible to run without some sort of automation. I know how hard it is to manage my one little Twitter account.

Multiple accounts with tons of followers — no thanks. I use Twitter as a way to spout off and find interesting people to exchange thoughts with. So far, no one has purchased one of my books due to my stellar twittering [;- ], although I have purchased 8 books from other peeps. Some time ago you posted a video of how you go about the process of adding followers to your account.

It seemed really convoluted and draconian. I followed you way back when. You followed me back and sent me a nice DM. Shortly thereafter you unfollowed me. I laughed at your scheme. It made you seem disingenuous to me. I seriously doubt many people do that. But, I learned a lesson. Twitter is about numbers.

Not people. I like people better. Sincerely, Toni Dockter tonidockter. The fact that you followed me and I ended up unfollowing you is not an ordinary occurrence. And it has nothing to do with quality of tweets. My goal with social media networks is this: bring my followers back to my blog and build relationships here, where I know no one is going to shut me down and I can take all the time I want to like I am doing right now and like you just did in the comments.

That is a shame and very disheartening to read after all the time and effort you have put into Twitter. I will follow your new account as soon as Twitter will allow it. Right now they say I am following too many people and do not have enough foll0wers of my own I follow 2, and have followers which I find highly annoying.

So anytime I try to follow an additional person I get their message saying I cannot do it. I appreciate your blog posts, your knowledge and expertise, and since I am pretty much a newbie at all of this despite my advanced age the things I have learned from you have been very helpful to me. Keep up the good work.

You actually have to unfollow some of the people who are not following you; otherwise, you might never pass the mark. How nice of you to respond so quickly AND with a tip for me. I will take your advice. Thanks so much! Sobering lesson there Ana. Keep us posted on the MMS question — I have it but rarely use it. Thanks tammy — yep i figured it was a combination of different factors! I think it was of a cross-posting issue via those platforms, Cathy; not so much the platform itself.

I once got my primary account suspended, but I when I changed the email address, it went live again. I then changed the address back to the original, and it still worked,,,.

Hey Ana. I wondered what happened with your account. I thought it must have been a mistake. I am glad you have cleared up what happened. Keep up the good work and thanks for helping us to avoid getting our accounts suspended. My pleasure Ana. Wishing you super success. Hope you can bring home all your family needs with your internet business. I do have some friends that have a handful of different accounts, and RT between them almost constantly, bit no adverse effects yet.

If I can spot a spam account when it appears, it would seem to me that Twitter would be able to do so, too. Ya think that one might be up to something more worth chasing than a prominent blogger that is more conscientious than the vast majority of Twits?

I was surprised to hear that posting the same tweet between different accounts could be against their TOS, Sheldon. One thing for sure: I never spammed any one of my accounts, never did sponsored tweets which I hate , never sold anything — only solid value. Plus, mostly RTed other bloggers, rather than my blog…. I have read your posts om Twitter and know how much you rely on it to send traffic to your blog. Twitter is one of my top traffic sources too. I want to change that but being on the newer end of being a blogger, with a not so big reputation, I have no choice still.

Like your mailing list and other social media platforms. I guess that is why business pros always tout the importance of your own list, nobody can take that away.

I hope they give you back your account AND the followers with it. Either way, I followed the new Ana twitter profile. The only internet property you have control of is your own. Everywhere else you are a guest and they can for whatever reason decide to shut you down. Use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to drive traffic to your own website, be diverse. If they ever end up shutting you down you hopefully have built enough of a following on your site to begin rebuilding.

On a side note, I too have had my accounts suspended and also used TweetAdder. I think the first time I did this I was too aggressive. Social media is just one of the ways to drive traffic and even though Twitter was my largest referral traffic source, I still have plenty of other source to get traffic from. Good luck Ana! What a colossal waste of time this is for you. Your experience does serve as a warning. How many followers did you lose on this account alone? That has to hurt. It is so frightening that a company can do something like this.

It could be devastating to a small business. Do you have the IDs of your followers? I would not be prepared for this if it were to happen to me. Sounds like an idea for a great post if such a thing is possible.

I too am using TweetAdder and it really speeds things up. I may stay far away from the automated stuff.

I am now following your new account and will be sending your message out frequently. Sorry to hear that your Twitter account was suspended. You had really good and well established one.

I know the pain. I pushed too far and they banned my main selling account — it was shock for me. But I learned my lesson and in time I grew bigger and stronger. And will surely do even better now on Twitter. I am truly sorry that your account was suspended. One thing I know twitter IS clamping down on is affiliate links, so that could potentially be an issue. Skype me sometime this week. I know exactly why your account got banned. It has everything to do with the automation software you use, and I can explain how I know this.

Skype me. Remember, we do nothing without your knowledge. In fact, we are one of the most outspoken against spam in the Twitter Marketing sector.

Rather, I meant that any social management platform like that that allows to post the same tweet through multiple accounts can cause trouble, according to what Twitter said. I just sent you an email, explaining the finer points of Tweetadder and why you should proceed with caution when using them.

Then an obviously legitimate account holder loses their accounts without warning for what amounts to very small infractions, if that. I know, business is business but common sense should take hold at some point.

My new account was not even 5 minutes old and I was already getting messages from spammers, Brian. Ana, Sorry to hear of what occurred with your accounts. As others have stated, you should be up and running with your new account Building up a good sized following in no time. I do not use Twitter all that much, yet recently I have noticed my Email account is getting a lot of new twitter followers, all of whom are Porn type spammers.

From time to time with the same tweet and with MMS. Great information. Sharing it with a friend that just had his accounts suspended. Real value and engagement. Which is surely what Twitter wants and the reason for their TOS in the first place! Twitter should be trying to protect accounts that are clearly not spammers and work with them to avoid their accounts getting suspended.

Surely people who are trying to use Twitter the right way like you are surely worth giving the time to help keep their accounts from suspension. What I cannot understand is why a warning was not deemed necessary but a permanent suspension is. If the activity of a user triggers a suspension on Twitter can it not Trigger a warning… first?

It is quite unsettling to put it mildly to see those accounts with 25k upwards each get totally wiped out. The message that sends out is that they want to dissuade you from bothering with Twitter in future.

Twitter should be trying to keep users like you who add so much value, not giving you the dreaded bird boot! A prior warning would massively help to avoid people getting banned with no option of getting their accounts back. If someone makes a mistake is it too much to ask that Twitter warns them first at least once?

It is so difficult for Twitter to accept that someone who unknowingly makes a mistake would want to rectify it, if given a prior warning? Maybe this is one of the reasons why so many join and leave Twitter in such a short space of time despite its growth.

I totally understand Twitters need to keep a handle on things with millions of users including spammers sadly but permanently suspending your accounts is IMO terribly harsh and misguided.

If those accounts are getting banned it sends out a very confusing message. Hi Ana, I follow you when I get a chance and I am sorry for the grief that you experienced at the hands of twitter. As much testing as you have done in researching how this all happened to you, as marketers we realize how helter skelter their victim selection can be. I remember having my first 4 Facebook accounts disabled because I was trying to market and at that time Facebook was not in tune to marketing that they have since embraced and totally changed their stance.

They now allow things that I used to be disabled for. The first time I lost 2, friends, 2nd- friends, 3rd 1, friends, 4th friends. I used market manually most of the time before the new automated software has come out and Facebook as gotten more open to this.

Starting over again is painful! I feel ya…anyway I tweeted your announcement. The second time there was no notification; I had to follow up with them and it took ages for them to get back to me. After finally hearing back from someone, the only reason I was able to get out of them was that it could have been because of a third party application automatically posting information to my Twitter account.

Ok, so can they give me an idea as to which application it was? I use Hootsuite and a few other tools to schedule posts — are these against their TOS? Now, I tread very carefully so as not to offend the twitter powers-that-be.

However I feel that their TOS is ambiguous, to say the least. I appreciate you posting about your situation. Right or wrong, when on Twitter, we are in their house, and they can deny service to anyone without an explanation. Lesson learned. I must be hard, because I know from myself how long it takes to build a large follow-list. On the other hand I am sure that people will come back and follow your new account pretty fast. I have MMS too and no I am in two minds whether to continue using it or not.

Sarah, Please do not worry. I will speak to Ana this week and explain in more detail, but this is all related to Tweetadder. Twitter cannot ban Tweetadder, even though they break most rules, so they go after accounts. And they go after IP addresses. My main point about mentioning MMS was the fact that it allows you to cross-post the same message to all your accounts simultaneously. Ahh sorry to hear that Ana! I had the same thing happen to me but with Youtube!

Someone decided to flag my video and BOOM months of hard work and momentum gone! Hey Ana, I had the same thing happen to me. I had a twitter acct for each of my 5 websites and they suspended each of them on me 85, followers. I know how you feel. So much easier to build up across several accts vs. Twitter account suspension and other ways to spank you What to do if your Twitter account Is suspended.

Only had the account for a week! Not worth even having a Twitter account in my view. Still it is more fun talking with the living and not a screen. Hi Ana, Thank you for sharing your experience. I used to follow per day, Chad, and cumulatively, I had over K followers.

Hi Ana, I have a question about the Triberr and the Tweets going from it. Ana, Another great post about Twitter! And, Why did you choose those themes? They were all based on my personal interest, but they all had my business tied into them.

Thanks for joining me, Carl. You have to be followed by the person you are sending a DM to. I am glad I am one of them. It seems like the bigger the company gets, the more the individual user suffers… So sorry to hear that. And yes, it does feel nice to commiserate.

Are you still using MMS? Or trying the new interface? Thanks for the heads up Ana. Now I am rebuilding my Twitter empire one account at a time.

Really sucks that you got banned, but it seems justified. Hate to say it. I understand and agree, Jonathan. Merry Christmas! That really sucks. But I am following your new account. To me the takeaways are pretty simple: 1. Glad to see that at least one of us learned from this experience, David. LOL Thanks for joining me on Twitter! And I have no idea if varying the tweets a bit would help, Joseph…. Ana, Sorry about your experience with Twitter.

It is frustrating, Cynthia. Hi Ana, I am also a bit surprised that they shutdown your account. Thanks for the follow, Boutros!

Hey Ana, Never thought that Twitter would do something like this. Anyways, thanks for sharing the article, Appreciate your time and effort, And sorry for the trouble caused by Twitter, Jeevan Jacob John. Thanks, Jeevan. Ana, I think that they thought you were an Occupy Twitter squatter… I too have several websites, but I only have the one twitter account. Thanks for the follow! I am over it now, Francisco… Thanks for joining me! Who am I kidding? Hi Ana Thanks for the heads up about this, could not think of any worse than losing my Twitter account.

You might all want to take a look at a new service called JustRetweet. JustRetweet looks interesting, Ron; plus, have of my friends are already on it. LOL Thanks for the recommendation and the comment.