Last
night, around 9.30, as I was logging out from Twitter a message was suddenly
flashed on my page – “Your account has been suspended, please see “Suspended
accounts”. As in the previous occasion in December 2017 no reason has been offered for the
suspension. Before finally logging off I completed their appeals process and
got a mail to which they sought a reply seeking a confirmation that it is
indeed my mail account. In the appeals form they again sought my personal information
like full name, phone number, email ID etc.
There
is a pattern to how Twitter targets certain accounts and I am sure many have
experienced it. I had known as far back as 2012
that my account is definitely a target and had created an alternate account
should @MediaCrooks be suspended or banned.
Even
in the normal course, lately, Twitter has been sending all kinds of funny
messages like:
#
Suspicious activity in your account,
please verify email ID or something. I wonder what suspicious activity my account
would undertake. Certainly, I don’t possess the knowhow to as much as
photoshopping let alone make incendiary devices and blow them up on Twitter. It’s
laughable.
#
Many a times, another message would flash on my “Mentions Page” = “You are getting too
many mentions, would you like to control the messages you get?” –
Surely, people would like to have interactions and get a lot of mentions
through RTs, quotes or replies. When Twitter has already provided a “Settings” feature on the Mentions Page
on who I want to hear from, why would they keep sending such messages.
#
Not to mention, frequent lock downs for an hour or 12 hours or sometimes more
than 3 days. I am used to all this for quite some time.
My
tweet messages are aggressive but nowhere of the kind of filth and abuse poured
by handles like “VORdotcom” or many stand-up comedians and journos. Twitter has
made my tweets invisible to
followers, RTs disappear and even when one searches for a word or phrase with
the “@Mediacrooks” handle, the results simply don’t show the related tweets
that used to appear earlier. All these
tricks are not accidents. So, since @mediacrooks is suspended, this morning
I logged into my alternate account @RealMediaCrooks.
To my horror, I instantly find the following message from Twitter:
Automated behaviour by an account that is not
even used at all in a million years? The account hasn’t tweeted anything other
than two tweets – One in August 2012 informing this is my alternate account and
another RT in December 2012. What possible “automated behaviour” could an
unused account manage? All these are downright stupid Twitter tricks at work
for the political agenda they follow.
In
any case, while Twitter can take its own sweet time to deal with the suspension
of my first handle (@mediacrooks) those who were following that handle and wish
to read my tweets can now follow me at @RealMediaCrooks.
PS: Since @RealMediaCrooks wasn’t
ever used before, I have to make it a point to specifically inform the MSM
crooks to immediately block this handle as well. That will take some effort
considering the number of crooks that have blocked me.
