For those of you that follow our Twitter feeds, please let me apologise. We have been suspended by Twitter, automatically, for building up too large a network of people we are following, too quickly. I did this, as you may recall from a previous post, because Twitter dumped all of my followers, all of the people I was following, and all of my lists.
When that happens, without notification or justification, the first thing you try and do is rebuild what you have lost. Apparently if you do this too quickly, you are in violation of shitters terms of service.
Allow me a little rant here if you will. That is one of the problems with signing up to a service with a EULA, rather than purchasing a product that you own. I will NEVER buy another windows enabled computer for that very reason. I use Ubuntu, and I can use what I like, and change what I don’t.
Twitter uses the very worst possible model for enforcing it’s arcane terms of service. First, if it had checked before suspending me, it would have seen that each tweet was individual, and not spam. Second, it would have seen that the people I was following were in the same industry as me. The adult Industry. I network with other sex toy suppliers, with strippers, with escorts, with adult websites. If individuals follow me, then I follow them back, as I see that as a courtesy.
Then, when you are suspended, they make it as hard as possible to contact them, and to appeal their process. I have now been waiting THREE DAYS for an acknowledgement that I have appealed their unjust suspension.
A few of my tweets are raunchy, and my profile pic shows a nipple. I don’t think these are the cause, as I have never had any complaints (Nor any moans…), and there are others that use twitter who are far more explicit than I.
So, no Twitter at the moment. I recently called the administrators of Twitter the “uncontactable Twitter Gods.” Nothing I have seen so far changes that assessment.
I would have thought that the first rule of business would be, “Don’t fuck off the people using your service.”
Sure, get rid of spam bots, but identify them accurately. On Twitter, this isn’t actually that hard. Here’s a clue: They run multiple names, so that they can re-tweet their own messages. They only tweet advertisements. They never reply to a direct message.
That’s a good starting point.
Twitter has it’s uses, but the numbers are already on the decline. Let’s see if they can maintain their relevance.
A good place to start is not abusing their loyal customers.
Love Chiquita
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I can’t really put my tagline of “No Complaints, Only Moans” here can I ? ‘Cos this is just one big complaint!!
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