In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Twitter announced a new initiative to suspend accounts “for attempting to evade an account suspension,” whatever that means:
This week, we are suspending accounts for attempting to evade an account suspension. These accounts were previously suspended for abusive behavior or evading a previous suspension, and are not allowed to continue using Twitter.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) August 14, 2018
And please let them know if they accidentally suspended your account in error:
We will continue this work in the coming weeks as we identify others who are attempting to Tweet following an account suspension. If you believe your account has been suspended in error, please let us know.https://t.co/RUWvNoQt2G
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) August 14, 2018
Twitter really needs to do better than this. For example, conservative Sean Medlock had his @jtLOL account “temporarily limited” again without any explanation on Tuesday. Did it have anything to do with this new round of suspensions?
And here we go again… pic.twitter.com/vEu5R5ou7Y
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) August 14, 2018
And now that the @jtLOL is back, Twitter isn’t telling him what rule he broke:
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1029694566251868160
So how do you not repeat the alleged bad behavior if you don’t know what you did?
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1029695965534584832
Wash. Rinse. Repeat:
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1029696199618715648
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