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A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Thanks for letting me know! A tricky business. – pfanderson, on August 05, 2008 00:00

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

That happened with me also, Andy. Jason flushed the cache for my account and the really helped a lot. – pfanderson, on August 04, 2008 23:58

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Seconding Dave! Thank you for listening and paying attention, by tweet and via this page. Meanwhile, whatever changes you made did nothing for my remaining problems. Thanks for trying, and for actively communicating expectations, timelines, and process. – pfanderson, on August 04, 2008 23:57

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Hi, Jason, People with protected streams can DM me, but cannot @ me. I cannot reply to the DMs. Sort of backwards from @symtym's problem. – pfanderson, on August 04, 2008 23:56

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

I figured it was ok to give their ids, since their streams ARE private, and folks could find them just as easily by rooting through my "following". – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 23:36

pfanderson replied on August 03, 2008 23:35 to the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Hi, again, Jason - and thank you for your quick reply. I've been digging through looking for specific examples. We have been able to get this problem fixed with some people, like @dmcordell who unlocked her account so we could connect again.

Here is someone who tried to unfollow and refollow me and it has not worked:
<http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerisi...>
This is what happens when I try to follow her back:
<http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerisi...>

Here is a friend whose DMs I can see, but cannot see her tweets:
<http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerisi...>
This is what happens when I try to follow her back:
<http://flickr.com/photos/rosefirerisi...>
NOTE: I cannot reply to her DMs with my own DM.

Now, with less visual evidence. :) More folks who have unfollowed and refollowed me, but whom I still cannot see their tweets and get the same screen (please request to follow, you already follow). They have sent me replies (@pfanderson) that I cannot view.

tjshay
iteachcomputers

If screenshots help, I can provide.

On the other hand, there are friends with protected streams that I *can* see, without having to do any funky corrections:

swbuehler
ljharris
philgomes

These are just examples of types of problems. I expect there are more folk in each category.

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Just stumbled on this - perhaps related to this weekend's problem? I don't see any resolution posted for these folk.

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 23:04

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

I am finding Summize a way to get some of the tweets back. Thank God for small favors, eh? It is also a good tool for verifying if a person was part of a community and conversations, or not. – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 22:17

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Jason? I am unable to reply to DMs. :( – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 18:07

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Thank you, Jason! But it isn't quite right yet.

The Recent tab does seem to be more populous, which is good. However, the people with private streams who I follow and who follow me are not showing up. Unfortunately, to see them is requiring work on their part, which simply broadens the impact of the problem by making more work for them. What seems to be working for most of them is if they unfollow and refollow me, then I send a request to them to be added.

Thank you again for checking into all these messy sequelae. Much appreciated. :) – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 17:43

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Hello? Anyone here? – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 16:05

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Hi, Noah - what accounts were deleted? I do agree that there should be a formal warning process first. This would allow people to respond, backup, or modify/justify "questionable" practices before losing data and functionality. It looks like it will take weeks or months for me to restore full functionality of my account. I commented earlier on the reduction in my timeline stream, and have not gotten a reply to that. Going to ask the other victims if they know of a better solution. – pfanderson, on August 03, 2008 13:47

pfanderson replied on August 03, 2008 02:39 to the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Hiya, @Goldman and any other listening Twitter higher up. Thank you, thank you for getting this fixed. Went pretty fast once Goldman connected with the question.

I am having a problem with the restored account and wanted to ask about it. Most of the people I follow do not seem to be showing up in my stream (Recent tab). When I unfollow and refollow they seem to show up. Some show up anyway, and I am not sure why. I am really having struggles with friends with locked accounts. They are having to first unfollow me, refollow me, then I repeat the process in reverse. (Check interchanges between me and @dmcordell). That worked with two private accounts.

I follow about 1500 people. Yes, there are a bunch I want to get rid of, but TwitterKarma crashes on my account, so I have not been able to find and delete the unproductive accounts. There are also a substantial number of accounts I followed for work purposes that I don't need anymore. However, going through and refollowing 1500 people is really painful. @DaveDelaney and @tibbon said they were going through the same thing (and suggested the solutions I have used). Is there anyway you can fix it so that this isn't necessary? So that my followers are there, AND show up in my timeline?

Many thanks!

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Hey, @abrudtkuhl, your account is back! Sort of, incompletely. – pfanderson, on August 02, 2008 22:52

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Oops! Just realized I did follow @abrudtkuhl - Had just added him last week. He (and me, you, @davedelaney @conniecrosby are back with accounts, no archive, and only new tweets. @Narain is back with full account - w00t! – pfanderson, on August 02, 2008 22:52

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

I lost access late afternoon yesterday. Let's see, of the affected group, I followed you, @conniecrosby, @davedelany, @narain, @pknit (which was a false alarm) and @skalik. I am not 100% certain about @skalik, but I know we had friends in common if we didn't follow each other. I did not (yet) follow @tibbon @marjarpanic @abrudtkuhl. I know that for @tibbon and @abrudtkuhl we have friends in common. I have NO idea how a newbie like MarJar got pulled into this mess! It does seem rather clustered, doesn't it? I guess we'll find out Monday morning when folks come back to work about others. Wondering if this effected any of the folks in Japan or other countries with large Twitter user populations. – pfanderson, on August 02, 2008 20:38

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Like @davedelaney, I have been a strong Twitter evangelist and have upcoming obligations that depend on Twitter. I haven't created the variety of resources about Twitter that Dave has, but I do teach about and with Twitter. The @pubmedbootcamp account was my teaching experiment and we were just making plans for that. I have a few slideshows about Twitter in Slideshare. Here is my first: http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthsci... -- over four thousand views, over 100 downloads, embedded in almost 20 blogs. I think I had about 1500 followed and about 1300 followers. I had my 5,000th tweet shortly before this nightmare began. I've been working to develop a series of Twitterphiliac slideshows and was in preparations for them. This has all really taken the heart out of that project. Meanwhile, we are in the process of planning an experimental social medial class for healthcare students, and I've been asked to consult with our administration about using social media for community outreach. These activities are going on NOW, with meetings in the early part of next week and following. Twitter had been planned to be an integral part of both activities, but I now have grave misgivings about making that kind of recommendation. Would be really going out on a limb. – pfanderson, on August 02, 2008 20:30

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

http://www.plurk.com/p/22emt – pfanderson, on August 02, 2008 19:28

A comment on the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

I am amazed the percentage of people banned who are people I follow – pfanderson, on August 02, 2008 19:03

pfanderson replied on August 02, 2008 18:55 to the discussion "Account Deleted/banned with no reasoning" in Twitter:

Here's another one - @abrudtkul - http://www.plurk.com/p/22f1v