3 Ways to Get Your Twitter Account Suspended

If you haven’t heard of it yet, Twitter have two very important guidelines you must abide to prevent your account from being suspended. They are the Following Rules and Best Practices and the Automation Rules and Best Practices. I went trough these guidelines quite extensively, and here are the three things I find it’ll most definitely get your account suspended.

1. Are You Inadvertently Spamming People?

Are you repeatedly sending the same link to several people in a short period of time? Even long time users of Twitter can get their accounts suspended for this reason. It does not matter if you’re trying to create awareness to you service, blog or even a charity cause. It is against Twitter Terms of Service, and you’ll end up with your account suspended.

2. Are You Massively Following and Un-following Users?

No matter what the reason, it’s against Twitter Terms of Service to follow and un-follow users with the intention of gathering their attention or building a followers base. You are most certain to be suspended if you’re using an automated tool to follow and un-follow user and you’ll still may be suspended even if you’re doing it manually. The current Twitter Following Rules and Best Practices limit every account to 1000 new followers a day, and there are even more restrictions if you’re following more than 2,000 people. Either way, this is the easiest way to get your account suspended.

3. Are You Creating Multiple Accounts?

This is most certainly something not the most common, but will most definitely guarantee a suspension. Nonetheless, there are legitimate reasons why users may have multiple accounts. If you think you have a valid reason for creating multiple accounts, you can file a ticket support and explain what are you planning to do.

Twitter is not here to prevent users from participating on the community, their are merely setting guidelines to protect this same community and provide a better user experience. But, what if you already got your account suspended? Simply file a support ticket and explain your situation. My guess is they’ll gladly help you sort things out.

What about you? Have you got a Twitter account suspension story to tell?