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Twitter banned me for Following too many people!
Twitter banned me for Following too many people!
Can they do that?
My Twitter username is Yobird, and i was not spamming, just a regular account.
The first symptom was a week ago, when i couldn't Tweet, then today I got a message that my account was deleted, and I tried to restore it and got this message:
We've sent a verification email to email@yobird.com.BANNED
Twitter; please fix your mess!
Can they do that?
My Twitter username is Yobird, and i was not spamming, just a regular account.
The first symptom was a week ago, when i couldn't Tweet, then today I got a message that my account was deleted, and I tried to restore it and got this message:
We've sent a verification email to email@yobird.com.BANNED
Twitter; please fix your mess!
I’m really angry
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Tell me when someone solves it.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
The best solution from the company
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The yobird account is under investigation for spam, and was thus hidden from public view. I have reinstated the public visibilty of the account:
http://twitter.com/yobird
however, it is still frozen during investigation. We research all accounts that show the characteristics of spam accounts. The accounts we pay special attention to are those which are highly blocked and/or written in about (a high number of blocks is usually synonymous with a high number of written spam complaints.)
We investigate every spam complaint by hand and we're very serious about stopping Twitter spam on behalf of our community. If more people are blocking an account than following it, you are most likely a candidate for spam investigation. We're not trigger happy on all complaints; we do review them, and in some cases, work with people on developing better (spam free) practices for Twitter usage, but blatant spammers we do not tolerate.
Thanks to everyone who submits the spam complaints, it does help us remain vigilant. You can submit a spam report/complaint here:
http://twitter.com/help/
using the drop down box to indicate spam. We're working on making a more efficient, spam-free Twitter for everyone.
Thanks,
Crystal
The company and 1 other person say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?Please log a support issue at http://twitter.com/help -
Inappropriate?Already did it...
Everybody knows they never get back to you on the standard support...
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?Our experiences obviously vary, but I've so far logged well over a dozen support tickets and have gotten a response on each one.
It usually takes three to four days (sometimes longer if there are a lot of technical issues and they get inundated with tickets). They get back in touch when they need more information, or when they've already solved the problem.
The longest I think that I've had to wait is around a week, and that was because I logged the ticket just before the weekend. -
Inappropriate?Ok, I'm just talking from earlier experience, maybe they'll surprise me ;)
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Inappropriate?How many people were you following though? Follow spam is really lame..
I’m BBQing spammers
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Inappropriate?How many people were you following, mofle? Following more than 5000 would be considered spam in almost everyone's eyes (unless you have 5000 followers and you follow them all back). -
Inappropriate?Yes, how many people was it? That could make a difference. -
Inappropriate?The yobird account is under investigation for spam, and was thus hidden from public view. I have reinstated the public visibilty of the account:
http://twitter.com/yobird
however, it is still frozen during investigation. We research all accounts that show the characteristics of spam accounts. The accounts we pay special attention to are those which are highly blocked and/or written in about (a high number of blocks is usually synonymous with a high number of written spam complaints.)
We investigate every spam complaint by hand and we're very serious about stopping Twitter spam on behalf of our community. If more people are blocking an account than following it, you are most likely a candidate for spam investigation. We're not trigger happy on all complaints; we do review them, and in some cases, work with people on developing better (spam free) practices for Twitter usage, but blatant spammers we do not tolerate.
Thanks to everyone who submits the spam complaints, it does help us remain vigilant. You can submit a spam report/complaint here:
http://twitter.com/help/
using the drop down box to indicate spam. We're working on making a more efficient, spam-free Twitter for everyone.
Thanks,
Crystal
The company and 1 other person say
this solves the problem
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This solves the problem
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Wow. 60000 people? That's insane! -
60,000! and 1,000 following back. Mega follow spam..
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Inappropriate?mofle:
I'm fascinated by the many different and creative ways Twitter is used, but I've never yet been able to work out why - or how! - a real person would follow and read the tweets from many thousand other users.
So I'd be interested to hear from you - a real human mass follower at last! - why you do this, and how you cope with such a torrent of tweets. You may well have a legitimate explanation, though I can't yet guess what it might be!
So please enlighten me!
I’m intrigued...
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Inappropriate?Read my Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/yobird
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Inappropriate?mofle — even though you haven't posted spam as of yet, (aside from triggering an email to all those 60000) I bet you'll blast out a number of spam tweets soon once you "recruit" more followers. Also, your tweets seem to look very random. For example, you're talking about waking up at 7pm? And you're obviously advertising your brand by talking about YoBird.com and birds in general.
As Eridanus said, how can a human put up with 60,000 people's tweets?!
I’m against follow-spam
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