What do you do if accounts get shadowbanned?

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I wondered why my traffic had been dwindling and I created a little script to check all my accounts if they are shadowbanned and it turns out like 60% of them have been.

Do you just abandon them if this happens? Is it permanent or is there a way out of it? Someone just told me 'wait 24 -72 h and start posting again' but I have never heard of that implying it is only a temp measure?

Some of the shadowed accounts I had a couple hundred followers on so they still get engagement from those users but others got shadowed in like the first day so unless it can be reversed then those latter ones are dead in the water.

So the main question is whether it is true that you can be unshadowed or if it is indeed a permanent thing?

Oh also how to prevent it in future? I have only been very conservative with posting - only once every 3-4 hours - and no following. Only used 1-3 tags so I don't know what caused them to get shadowed. Surely those settings are not aggressive?

So opinions please.
 
Most of the time the shadow ban hold only 24-72 hours. Dont post anything in this time and you get unbanned. I
 
Most of the time the shadow ban hold only 24-72 hours. Dont post anything in this time and you get unbanned. I

Good to have someone else confirm this. I had been shadow banned for a couple of months though and didn't know it (only bothered to check today) so we will see if it is too late for them or not :D
 
I used to follow/unfollow on Twitter back in 2015-2017. It used to bring a lot of traffic to one of my projects. I just tried this again recently and traffic from twitter fell to 0. Does this mean my account is shadowbanned? My account is old (since 2017). lol I followed like 250 people in a span of 3 days. Got a alot of traffic on day 1. Day 2 and 3 completely dead.
 
Definitely shadowbanned. This is new for me.

Searching the username in twitter search, the account shows up under "People"

Searching the username from another twitter acccount, the account doesn't show up there.

Ooops. I'll check in a few days and see what happens.
 
Definitely shadowbanned. This is new for me.

Searching the username in twitter search, the account shows up under "People"

Searching the username from another twitter acccount, the account doesn't show up there.

Ooops. I'll check in a few days and see what happens.

Interested to hear if you unshadow it :).
 
Shadow banned again after following/unfollowing ~150 people and DMing about 50 followers (no links)

Leaving it alone for now
 
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