Take a look at the message immediately following, which raises serious concerns about a social media giant:
“Hello, After further review, we have unsuspended your account as it does not appear to be in violation of the Twitter Rules. Your account is now unsuspended. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience. Please note that it may take 24-48 hours for your follower and following numbers to return to normal. Thanks, Twitter.”
Thanks for nothing, Twitter!
This social media platform – that is supposed to act in a responsible way towards its users – arbitrarily removed my ability to communicate with my readers and customers for a day short of a whole month… for no reason.
It has admitted that I did nothing wrong, as I stated on February 2 when I discovered that my @MidWalesMike account had been suspended. I wasn’t notified officially. So why did it take 27 days for staff to check and find out that I was right?
This is not the first time that my account has been wrongly suspended, either. I was stopped from using it in December after a supporter of Rachel Riley sent false information to the platform’s bosses:
Identified? This person posted screenshots that appear to show they are responsible for the complaint that had Vox Political’s Mike Sivier suspended from Twitter. Mike has no idea who this person is and a Twitter search provides no evidence of any contact.
It’s apparently a fake account – I’m told the profile picture actually belongs to somebody in Russia. Stealing people’s images is a classic troll activity and it reflects extremely poorly on Riley that she is supported by such people.
Back in December it took just five days for me to get my account back – but that was five days too long.
I have written to the powers-that-be at Twitter, demanding a more detailed explanation of why my account was suspended without investigation. Am I to expect the same treatment at any time in the future, because this enormous multinational corporation is too cheap to employ anyone to check these accusations before taking action on them?
I do not expect any meaningful reply.
Is it time, then, to leave Twitter to the trolls?
How hard is it to start up a social media micro-blogging site? I’m not a coder so I don’t know. Is it really difficult or would it be simple? Does anybody know how?
I know Twitter is huge at the moment, and many people would hate to leave it because it has billions of users – but if it is unreliable (and it is), then it is time to let it go.
And it seems a bit of competition from an ethical organisation might be what’s needed to make Twitter clean up its act.
What do you think?
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Good to see you back Mike. Did Twitter respond to your previous subject access request?
No. The reply came after my account was restored and said as the matter was over, no further action would be taken.
They all used by people’s but those who don’t like
Abuse the system by complaining about you so off the lights go there are very many using the net and plenty get banned for a while nothing it seems is free if people’s didn’t use these platforms then perhaps they listen
Mike you are up against zionists expect every dirty trick in the book
I had a similar problem Mike and agree totally with you. All best
It’s easy to write the code for a Twitter-like app but the problem is getting enough numbers to support your app over to many others and get success and the big boys will only either work agast you to get rid of you or just buy you out and take over that way.
There is too much money and no real regulatorily controls over Twitter and Facebook so they can get away with this BS…