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Ask HN: Twitter “permanently suspended” for NO reason. What's going on?

My Twitter account, @simon, has been permanently suspended by Twitter. No reason. I don't think I tweeted anything in the last few weeks. Anyone able to help me understand what's going on? Anyone @ Twitter able to help? Not the first time for me that Twitter f*cks up badly. [0] [0]: https://simon.medium.com/mobile-twitter-hacked-please-help-2f65c691edf8

57FkMytWjyFu 4y ago
Short account names on twitter are valuable enough for resale to justify mass reporting an account for any violation, however so slight. Twitter is a dumpster fire.
- lsllc 4y ago
  This sounds like the most plausible answer to me if OP is on the level. I guess if Simon Pegg (or some other celeb named Simon) ends up with this, then you'll know!
  - simonebrunozzi 4y ago
    Simon Cowell - most referenced person I see with @simon.
rvz 4y ago
As someone previously said as soon as you get de-platformed: "Be nice" [0] to your Big Tech overlords. They know it is not 'your' account anyway. Given how they are going down the path of a tech dystopia, its probably for the best that your account was permanently suspended as they can choose who to give a platform to or do business with. Now that they have de-plaformed you, they have made it much easier for you to stop using their service as this can happen to anyone. So you should "Be nice" and once you have been de-platformed, you should still be very happy that they did. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32564133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32564133
- wruza 4y ago
  Are you sure that that context is similar to this one? I understand "Be nice then" there as "if you don't want to be deplatformed, then don't say things that people may find horrible".
  - anon291 4y ago
    I'm sorry this is nuts. There are large portions of conservative Americans (and also so called radical feminists... this isn't just a left or right issue) who would find a lot of the things left leaning people on Twitter say to be as offensive as some of the right wing people who have been banned for such trivialities as questioning gender. The answer seems to me to be "Don't say things silicon valley employees may find horrible."
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago
  This doesn't really apply to my suspended account. See the latest tweets for a reference. [0] [0]: https://twitter.com/simon https://twitter.com/simon
danwee 4y ago
> My Twitter account, @simon It's not your account. It was never yours. It's Twitter's, and they can do whaterver their TOS allows them to do with it (and they can change their TOS in whatever forms they want... so effectively, they can do whatever the hell they want with any account, as long as it's not illegal). I have created perhaps a couple of accounts on Twitter in the last decade. Always treated them as ephemeral stuff (same for any other digital thing I don't pay for... and even for the ones I pay, I'm very suspicious about them. See Netflix introducing ads for paying customers. What a joke).
0xChain 4y ago
Do you use a VPN? I had mine perma banned as well immediately after using a new VPN provider. The reason for ban said “ban evasion”. You should have gotten told a reason too.
ksherlock 4y ago
Having your account suspended is a lot better than being swatted. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/serial-swatter-sentenced-sixty-months-federal-custody-connection-death-tennessee-man https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/serial-swatter-sentence...
netfortius 4y ago
Reddit does the same. As very well said by a few others here: we own nothing, when it comes to social media accounts.

57FkMytWjyFu 4y ago

Short account names on twitter are valuable enough for resale to justify mass reporting an account for any violation, however so slight. Twitter is a dumpster fire.

lsllc 4y ago
This sounds like the most plausible answer to me if OP is on the level. I guess if Simon Pegg (or some other celeb named Simon) ends up with this, then you'll know!
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago
  Simon Cowell - most referenced person I see with @simon.

rvz 4y ago

As someone previously said as soon as you get de-platformed: "Be nice" [0] to your Big Tech overlords. They know it is not 'your' account anyway. Given how they are going down the path of a tech dystopia, its probably for the best that your account was permanently suspended as they can choose who to give a platform to or do business with. Now that they have de-plaformed you, they have made it much easier for you to stop using their service as this can happen to anyone. So you should "Be nice" and once you have been de-platformed, you should still be very happy that they did. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32564133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32564133

wruza 4y ago
Are you sure that that context is similar to this one? I understand "Be nice then" there as "if you don't want to be deplatformed, then don't say things that people may find horrible".
- anon291 4y ago
  I'm sorry this is nuts. There are large portions of conservative Americans (and also so called radical feminists... this isn't just a left or right issue) who would find a lot of the things left leaning people on Twitter say to be as offensive as some of the right wing people who have been banned for such trivialities as questioning gender. The answer seems to me to be "Don't say things silicon valley employees may find horrible."
simonebrunozzi 4y ago
This doesn't really apply to my suspended account. See the latest tweets for a reference. [0] [0]: https://twitter.com/simon https://twitter.com/simon

danwee 4y ago

> My Twitter account, @simon It's not your account. It was never yours. It's Twitter's, and they can do whaterver their TOS allows them to do with it (and they can change their TOS in whatever forms they want... so effectively, they can do whatever the hell they want with any account, as long as it's not illegal). I have created perhaps a couple of accounts on Twitter in the last decade. Always treated them as ephemeral stuff (same for any other digital thing I don't pay for... and even for the ones I pay, I'm very suspicious about them. See Netflix introducing ads for paying customers. What a joke).

0xChain 4y ago

Do you use a VPN? I had mine perma banned as well immediately after using a new VPN provider. The reason for ban said “ban evasion”. You should have gotten told a reason too.

ksherlock 4y ago

Having your account suspended is a lot better than being swatted. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/serial-swatter-sentenced-sixty-months-federal-custody-connection-death-tennessee-man https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/serial-swatter-sentence...

netfortius 4y ago

Reddit does the same. As very well said by a few others here: we own nothing, when it comes to social media accounts.