As some of you may have noticed or been told, I’m not very technical. Apparently I take after my Gran in that respect, which is fine as my Gran was wicked and my heart still does a little quiver when I think of her now, even though I lost her 22 years ago now. She was amazing.
Anyway, as some of you know I have been known to Tweet occasionally. It took me a while to get the gist but over the past couple of months I’ve really been enjoying it.
But…
BUT…
Twitter has decided I have been a bad girl and has suspended my account.
Oh my Bob the scandal!
The thing is, having looked more closely at their rules I can sort of understand why. You see, my mate Ashley at Upstart Blogger developed a programme where you can grow your Twitter followers for networking purposes, and, if you choose, you could become an affiliate and help promote and sell this programme on your Twitter account.
Having watched it grow from afar I decided to have a go too and see what happened. So just over a week ago I started Twitter Rocket. However, for reasons I don’t completely understand, Twitter have decided ‘Twitter Rocket’ infringes one or some of its policies and has therefore suspended anyone linked with it, and therefore, me. (He explains it better here.)
Bum B*gger B*llocks.
So I haven’t killed any puppies, peddled p*rn (or prawns) and I didn’t defraud or deflower anybody. I just tried something new and got unlucky.
I have no idea whether or not they’ll undo my suspension as all my queries so far have been met with automatic responses, and while I could start up a new account with a new name, that feels like the wrong thing to do at the moment.
So there you have it.
And the moral of this tale??
If you’re unsure of something follow your gut
Read the rules properly and consider all their possible interpretations
Don’t leave your hamster in the fridge over night
In the meantime, I am on facebook as Jo Beaufoix (I am the only one if you do a search), so catch up with me there if you want to say hello. I’d love to hear from you.
Missing all you tweeters.
Mwah.
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September 24th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Tsk, tsk, tsk!
Hope your back soon!
September 24th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Silly bloody sod!
September 24th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Ummm so when are they going to get rid of all those porn tweeters?! Surely that’s 100 times worse?! Hope to see you back soon, even though my tweets have been few and far between of late! x
September 24th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Unbelievable when you consider all of the bloody spammers! I guess they have to impose certain ‘rules’ but a bummer that you got caught up in it all! Hope the Twittersphere regains you soon (crap – did I just say ‘Twittersphere’)
September 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Outrageous, Jo. You’ll be hacking into the Pentagon next.
September 24th, 2009 at 9:57 am
I’ll see you on Facebook, I don’t twitter anyway, contrary to popular believe.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I’m not a tweeter, but I can sympathize. Good luck!
September 24th, 2009 at 11:00 am
I just couldn’t understand Twitter, and am full of admiration for anyone who can. Sorry to hear you’ve been suspended (but it was nice to hear about your wicked Gran). I do, however, Facebook (much to my children’s horror!)
September 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Interesting… and odd. Had not heard of this… but like you say, lesson learned.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I’ve never twittered. Blogging is complicated enough for me!
September 24th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Hilarious (and sad) that you got dumped for something so innocent.
I can’t quite bring myself to do the whole twitter thing.
Blogging seems more my style for now.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Are you sure you’re not Brittany???
Now of they could get rid of the naked webmarketing twonks that follow me every 5 minutes that would be useful, but no they got rid of one of my mates! Typical male support staff!
Hope you get reinstated soon! x
September 24th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
The hamster in the fridge bit. Is that an illustration of your technical advice? In which case, I think it’s pretty good.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Twitter and I never quite came to terms in the first place, so I wouldn’t even care if they suspended me. Do they do that for inactivity? Although, it is kind of fun to read the tweets. I’m a Twitter Lurker. Or Twurker. I enjoy Facebook far more for staying in touch with people.
September 25th, 2009 at 1:37 am
oh dear! seems to be the week for it. My husband just got banned from making comments on Facebook as he had apparently “overused the facility”!! In fact what they were really narked about was that he criticised them in his status updates for having so many technical glitches, but they didn’t have an automated response for that so they just blocked him instead!!
September 25th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Hi Jo – In honour of this special achievement I have given you an award in this week’s mummy bloggers’ roundup http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2009/09/25/mummy-bloggers-friday-roundup/
September 25th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Jo ‘the crim’ Beaufoix
Have you sent them an email pleading insanity?
September 25th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Oh please. It’s Twitter. It’s not like you’ve been kicked off the PTA or anything!
September 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Oh dear!! Can’t you just set up another account?
September 25th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Haha!
You freaking rebel!
September 25th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
You live and learn I guess!
Stupid silly Twitter eh?
x
September 25th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
As others have said, outrageous when you think of all the manky pornbots on Twitter. Hope you get reinstated soon!
September 25th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Sorry but I had to laugh! You naughty, naughty little girl! Don’t mess with Tweety Daddy…
I will come and say hello on Facebook then!
September 25th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
oh just give them a nudge and you’ll be back on in no time – I had a a similar experience with a colleague’s blog which turned out fine once the situation was explained – they’d merely used the wrong word in the blog title and had done no wrong, you’ll be fine x
September 26th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Oh dear. I don’t tweet. Well, not voluntarily anyway, but that made me laugh. Good for you, breaking the bloody thing!
September 27th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Now that I am a twit I decided to look for your account and got this message:
“Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here.”
Strange activity eh? You bad girl.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Sooooo THAT’S what happened!