FLIP THE BIRD
How to Avoid Permanent Suspension from Twitter
Twitter giveth and Twitter erroneously taketh away
“Ted Nugent is a redneck freak.”
That’s what I tweeted last week that earned me a permanent suspension from Twitter, a platform I’d been active on since it launched 15 years ago.
Just like that. Boom. Gone. Bye.
I thought you had to do something wrong — like call for the overthrow of the American government — before you’d be eternally cast out of the Twitterverse like some moral leper.
Not even close.
Turns out you don’t even have to curse at someone.
Twitter can, and will, boot you at any time for any reason, and you have zero recourse to do anything about it. Sure, you can file an appeal. However, your appeal will be quickly denied as an automated bot likely processes those requests. If you have ever been previously suspended for any reason, your chances of having an appeal denied increase exponentially.
So, what does it take to get suspended in the first place?
All it takes to get your account suspended is to say something that someone else dislikes enough that they take the time to report your tweet. Twitter’s appallingly flawed…
