How can I tell if my account is suspended?
If you suspect that your account has been suspended, you can find out by visiting your profile page. Go to twitter.com/[username], where you replace [username] with your username. You can also attempt to log in; if youre suspended, your account will have a red warning box on your timeline notifying you of account suspension.
When an account is suspended, twitter replaces the profile page with a page stating the account was suspended. You may have encountered this page when trying to view the profile of a new follower. For instance, if the follower violated twitter’s Terms of Service, this profile may already have been suspended as spam.
Why are accounts suspended?
Accounts are generally suspended for violations of the Twitter Rules. Please read the rules to find out more about specific violations.
Sometimes, twitter suspend accounts that have suspicious updates or post links to malicious websites. These accounts may have been compromised or have given their username and password out to another website.
Also, when creating a twitter account, be sure to use a valid email address. An invalid email address can raise a ‘red flag’ if twitter sends a welcome message and the address is reported as invalid or undeliverable.
How do I find out why my account was suspended, or get account suspension lifted?
To contest an account suspension, you would submit a request to twitter through their support service. Once you’ve submitted your ticket, they’ll email you a ticket confirmation with more information. You can check on your ticket status anytime by visiting Twitter Support and clicking “check on your existing requests.”
But if any of you have had to go down this route, then you have probably found this fruitless and still have a suspended account. Getting your account suspension lifted may very well take longer than it would to make a new account and start over!
But then you still run the same risk of having your new account suspended, after your hard work of getting followers again, for the same reasons as before.
What steps can I take to avoid these suspensions?
It’s not funny to build a following of 100′s or 1000′s of people, and then log onto your account to find it suspended, with no real chance of having it back. All because the automated process wasn’t smart enough to stay within the limitations of twitter policy.
If you do use a client such as TweetAdder, then be careful how you automate it. Don’t overdo the following per day, keep it low, keep it cool. And I would recommend you automating your tweets, but adding some personal ones in there when the come to you, keep a Twitter client open on your desktop for those moments.
If you have already seen that red banner when you log into your account ‘account suspended’ then you know that sinking disappointment and frustration. But for those of you who havent, it may very well be a matter of time, or you have found your own way to juggle the ratios and limits to fly under the radar. Either way the goal is to keep your account, and this method has worked for me.
