Posted on Tuesday, 26th May 2009 by admin
By Adrianos Facchetti:
Can you imagine life without Twitter?
Stop and think about it for a second.
What would it be like? How about imagining baseball without hotdogs, or making phone calls without your iPhone? It’s difficult, right?
Twitter is important to many of us for many reasons, which makes the thought of losing the privilege to tweet almost unfathomable. But, it’s possible and I’m going to show you some simple ways you can keep it from happening.
The first thing you need to do is read Twitter’s Terms of Service. You can find them at the bottom of your Twitter homepage under “Terms.”
When you click on “Terms” you will find a short list of basic terms and conditions. Read them all and then continue reading this post. You will thank me for this.
Did you read them? If not, that’s OK for now because I’m going to boil them down for you.
Don’t spam
This is probably the quickest and most common way to get kicked off of Twitter. How many times have you received a follow from someone like “@MARKETING_SUPERSTAR” or “@Molly,” who happens to be a scantily clad young “lady” with no followers who’s following 1,947 people? Or how about when you receive four or five tweets in a row from a person? Is that spam? I don’t know the answer to that one. A simple rule to follow is to spread out your tweets and treat Twitter like a face-to-face encounter. Courtesy counts.
Don’t harass or abuse anyone
Courtney Love is learning this one the hard way after she was sued for alleged defamatory tweets last month. Bottom line. Do not use profanity. Do not threaten or attempt to intimidate anyone. A good rule of thumb is to keep away from Twitter after 11:00 p.m. (tired) or after a night of drinks. No drunken tweets.
Don’t impersonate anyone
Don’t impersonate celebrities or anyone else for that matter. It’s usually not funny and celebrities REALLY care about their online reputation. Twitter takes this very seriously.
Don’t abuse Twitter
Don’t hack Twitter or attempt to show your hacker buddies how cool you are by introducing a worm or virus to Twitter.
Don’t break the law
This is meant to be broad. Some of the things you should avoid doing are infringing on another person’s copyright or trademark and defamation of character.
Even if you do none of the above, however, Twitter reserves the right “ . . . to refuse service to anyone for any reason at anytime.” But I think if you simply use common sense you’ll be fine.
Have you wondered what your daily life would be like without Twitter? I’d like to know your thoughts. Leave a comment below.
If you don’t leave a comment, your Twitter account may be suspended. Just kidding, or am I?
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Posted in Spam & Anti Spam, Twitter Guide | Comments (6)
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:24 am
Thanks for taking the time to inform “Twitters” about the law regarding the maintaining an account with Twitter. It is greatly appreciated.
Soapsuds2
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July 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I can’t imagine mah life w/out twitter! I don’t even remember life b4 twitter..thanx for the article, btw.
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August 9th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Thanks for the info. very good to post that. If Twitter wasnt there I’d cry. I talk to so many lovely ppl on there! (inc celebs)
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August 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
@adrianos Thank You for sharing
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August 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Super helpful post… I am so guilty of never reading the T&Cs of sites. Thanks for the information.
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August 9th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Having had over 20 accounts closed down for various reasons, let me make some things very clear.
Use of any automated program to build followers or stop following those who don’t follow you back is considered “follow churn” (the exception to this is white listed applications like twittgeek.com). This practice will get your account closed without so much as a notice, and if/when you contact twitter about it they ignore your request. Usually after a week they reinstate it also without telling you (trust me I unfollowed 400 people on an account I had never even posted a link on and it got closed)
Getting blocked by to many users (even if you’re not spamming) gets your account closed for spamming. They will reinstate but only after an investigation of your account. How long does that take? It depends how many DDoS attacks are happening to twitter and how many bugs they are fixing at the time they close your account.
Legal threats (this one is a bit confusing). If someone contacts twitter and claims you are doing something illegal (say they create a false DMCA notice) twitter won’t even hear your side of the story. It doesn’t matter if the report is fictitious. Twitter will close your account. This means (and I know this to be a fact) if you create some sort of software and sell it on twitter, and a competing company (or person) comes along and claims they created your software and you are selling it illegally, twitter will cancel your account. They will not reply to you about why or who to contact to challenge the decision.
Spam: still a touchy topic with twitter. I know sites like CNN can post hundreds of links a day (repeatedly) and not be considered spam, yet I also know top marketing professionals who had accounts with over 50,000 users who got closed for doing the exact same thing. It seems the area of topic and the level of creditability helps decide who is spam.
Ask for help to many times WILL get your account canceled. I repeatedly kept going to twitter with a problem and they kept closing my help topic sending me to a “resolved” forum. Yet my problem was never resolved. I kept emailing asking, they kept sending me to the same page. Eventually my account was canceled.
Hopefully this helps people in some minute way. Sorry for such a long rant/comment
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