To sum up my Twitter story about losing 15,000 followers. I originally wrote the blog post “Twitter Lost 15,000 of my Followers” two days ago with the hope of venting my frustration. Well that all changed when I woke up this morning to see that my Account had a big red band across the top that read:
“Account Suspended. This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity. If we have suspended your account mistakenly, please let us know. See Suspended Accounts for more information.” (Copied from Twitter)
I proceeded to read some of the details on the page and it said that my account could be suspended for up to 30 days. I thought about it for several hours this morning and finally decided to post like crazy to peeps I had met on Twitter, using another Twitter account I had previously set up: @SoCalHouses.
Remember, I had been sending @Ev replies for the last few days because my account had been down for seven days. Needless to say, someone posted an @Ev reply and with all the activity, he responded and said he was looking into the problem. My account was active in less than two hours. He “Direct Messaged (DM’d) me and asked me to email him (I’m still waiting for his reply as I write this).
I pursued this route since I am not a spammer, and I knew Twitter could look back in my history to see that I was legitimate. I am very grateful to have this behind me. My thanks to @Ev, @Twitter and all of my peeps!
One positive outcome from this experience is that I now share my lessons learned to share with you that may help you avoid some of the frustration I went through.
What You Give You Get Back. My apologies for those of you that took it personally when I stopped following you. Obviously, it wasn’t my fault. But think about it. How many times does something like this happen to someone and we then just write that person off thinking they don’t want to have anything more to do with us? We can’t always control everything that happens to us and most of us don’t do things intentionally to hurt people.
Technology isn’t perfect. That includes social networking communication tools. It’s important to build your relationships here on Twitter, but also to move them to other platforms, so if there is a glitch it doesn’t impact you as severely.
I had so many wonderful comments from peeps. Thank you for caring!
