Twitter Follow Suspension

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ScaryMustard

Registered Member

Jun 27, 2012

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• May 1, 2013

• #1

Being an idiot, I didn't realize that Twitter suspended accounts for mass following users (first time marketing Twitter; didn't read ToS).

I'm allowed to retrieve my account if I agree to stop doing it, but I have about 750 people I followed right before this happened. If I retrieve my account now before waiting a bit, am I going to lose my account because those same people will continue to report my old follows as spam?

 

Last edited: May 1, 2013

webwhizz

BANNED

Apr 3, 2011

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• May 1, 2013

• #2

scrap that one and make a fresh account with new private proxy, that account is marked, now its only a matter of days, weeks before it will be suspended again

 

techblog

Elite Member

Jr. VIP

Feb 12, 2013

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• May 1, 2013

• #3

better be safe than sorry , OP try to make a new account if you want to work things out in the long run..good luck.

this happened to me.

 

webwhizz

BANNED

Apr 3, 2011

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• May 1, 2013

• #4

i havent been ban YET

socialmediapro said:

Well, I use tweepi to follow mass amounts of people and I haven't got banned yet and I follow around 1000 people a day (330 at the same time without a pause, 3 times a day).

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ScaryMustard

Registered Member

Jun 27, 2012

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• May 2, 2013
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• #5

webwhizz said:

scrap that one and make a fresh account with new private proxy, that account is marked, now its only a matter of days, weeks before it will be suspended again

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Wait what do you mean by "marked?" If all I do is drop normal tweets at this point, why would they re-suspend me if I'm not violating the ToS anymore?

 

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xxNEBer

Newbie

Apr 13, 2013

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• May 2, 2013

• #6

Marked as in Twitter will be 'watching what you do'. Even is you act human for a few months, once you start posting ads or follow a fair amount, it will get banned.

 

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aseohosting

Newbie

Feb 19, 2013

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• May 2, 2013

• #7

If it was a one time thing, you will be fine with the account that you already have. Twitter can detect if you are following aggressively, so if you have not continued to do so after the warning, you will not be penalized for any after effects of your previous transgression. A good % of users who are new to Twitter get that warning. I've seen the host of a twitter chat get the temporary ban because they started following so many people during the chat.

 

tompots

Elite Member

Dec 11, 2011

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• May 2, 2013

• #8

I wouldn't even mess with retrieving the account unless it had 25k or more. For every one account that they suspend create 10 more.