I’m a member of a Retweet Club founded by Daniel Scocco who is also the main faculty at Online Profits where I’m a student. The goal of  the Club is for the members to help each other in getting more retweets on their Twitter updates. This club is by invitation only.

I have learned a lot from the posts (and retweets) of the members since all of them are of quality content. Meaning, no spam or promotion of commercial stuffs( no affiliate links, sales landing pages , etc).

Starting today, and hopefully every Friday, I will share the Retweets of the members in one post. I may also add some quality retweets which are not necessarily from the Retweet club but nevertheless is beneficial to all you. You may also ReTweet any of these and it will be counted to your number of Tweets on your Twitter statistics.

So here we go.

1. 170+ Twitter Apps, Tools, Tips and Guides [Ultimate Twitter Resources]
   170+ Twitter Apps, Tools, Tips and Guides [Ultimate Twitter Resources]
   -  http://su.pr/A6lfCF via @madrasgeek
2. Feedburner is the Canary in the Mine Shaft
   RT Feedburner is the Canary in the Mine Shaft – http://su.pr/31AMsF
   (via @paulcunningham)
3. 173 Tips For A Quality Life While Working From Home
   “RT 173 Tips For A Quality Life While Working From Home http://bit.ly/c2UTGi
   @andrewrondeau”
4. Discussion on Seth Godin’s Tribes
   RT @jbennett2020 Tribes by Seth Godin- Key Resource in your Personal
   Leadership Development Plan |.. http://bit.ly/d1nMNT
5. Top 10 Websites to Download Music Albums for Free
   RT @FreeNuts Top 10 Websites to Download Music Albums for Free
   http://is.gd/dQ5ax
6. I Don’t Have Anything to Blog for Today, Help!
   RT @melvinblog I Don’t Have Anything to Blog for Today, Help!
   http://bit.ly/a6vzbz
7. Google teaches Negotiation
   #Google teaches negotiation, How to handle gatekeepers http://su.pr/85fEzC
   RT @himanshuchanda
8. 100 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic
   RT @howtomakeasite 100 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic -
   http://bit.ly/ddSWKe
9. How to Make $10, 000 or More a Year Online Simplified!
   Pls RT@adesojiadegbulu How to Make $10, 000 or More a Year Online
   Simplified! http://su.pr/2SNHs3
10. 5 Most Popular Twitter Directories That Will Grow Your Personal Brand
    5 Most Popular Twitter Directories That Will Grow Your Personal Brand
    (@jacobshare) http://su.pr/2AsZ97
11. 50 Must Follow Blogs on Twitter
    50 Must Follow Blogs on Twitter – http://su.pr/ASMH8U via
    @dangerdiabolick
12. ManageWP to Manage Two or More WP Blogs in Single Place
    ManageWP to Manage Two or More WP Blogs in Single Place http://su.pr/2BCq3R
    #wordpress #managewp #blogchat #blogging by @pkarunkumar
13. Tips for Creating a Perfect Business Website
    RT @berget Tips for Creating a Perfect Business Website http://su.pr/1kpO21
14. 10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers
    RT @ProBlogger 10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers
    http://bit.ly/c7oSgH
15. 5 Tips To Send Email and Get Noticed by Email Recipient
    5 Tips To Send #Email and Get Noticed by Email Recipient –  http://su.pr/1emgmS
16. Top 10 Tools to Test Website Speed
    RT @FreeNuts Top 10 Tools to Test Website Speed http://is.gd/dD0gK
17. Great post for all SEO professionals: Supersized SEO Checklist
    Great post for all SEO professionals: Supersized SEO Checklist
    http://is.gd/dBZvd <- by @portentint (RT @seonewsdaily) #seo
18. Places To Go For WordPress Help That Are Better Than The WordPress Forum
    New Blog Post: Places To Go For #Wordpress Help That Are Better Than
    The WordPress Forum http://bit.ly/desYFi (via @gospelrhys)
19. Signs You Have A Bad Webhost
    RT @blogdemanila Signs You Have A Bad Webhost http://bit.ly/badwebhost

Enjoy you weekend everyone!

The real Bill Gates is now on Twitter.

The former boss but still  part-time chairman of Microsoft has officially joined Twitter and becoming one of the most popular members.  On his first tweet,  Bill Gates only has 241 followers in three hours and swelled to 150,000 followers after 13 hours.

One of those who officially welcomed was actor Ashton Kutcher – the “unofficial” ambassador of Twitter.

“Thanks to you and all the other people who have welcomed me,” Gates tweeted to Kutcher. “I’ve got a lot to learn about Twitter but look forward to sharing more.”

There have previously been numerous fake accounts and impostors attributed to Bill Gates.  His Twitter account, if you want to follow him, is @BillGates.  According to  Twitter,  @BillGates — is noted as being “verified” and real.

@BlogDeManila is now following Bill Gates too!

I’m sure you are all aware what happened to my Twitter account.  As commented by Bingkee and other bloggers, that, indeed Twitter suspended a lot of accounts this week.

I did a search on Google on what really happened and I’d like to know the cause of the suspension.

I want to know the real score.

Lo and behold …Twitter, on it’s status update,  admitted that it was a HUMAN ERROR! Sounds like “pilot error” excuses whenever a plane crashed and the pilot died on the accident too. And since the pilot is gone, there’s nobody to blame anymore.

I wonder what happened to the “human” who accidentally suspended MY account and thousand others.

Here’s what on Twitter’s update status:

Restoring accidentally suspended accounts 3 days ago

Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts.

We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours.

One additional note: some the accounts suspended were using the third-party site Tweetlater . However, Tweetlater is not to blame for these suspensions nor is it in violation of our Terms.

This post update of Twitter really shows that a lot of people with legitimate accounts had their accounts suspended. This is also a justification that Tweetlater , the third party application that I’m using is not at fault.

I’m not sure where it came from that Tweetlater was to blame for this. Was there attacked on Tweetlater? Perhaps, some third party developers are “envy” on Tweetlater‘s accomplishment?  Anyway, these are just my  so-called “conspiracy theories”

One good thing that this exercises equally proved, is that, I did not commit any violation

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.- John C. Maxwell

Poor me, I was showing TweetDeck – a twitter client- to my colleagues telling them how good it is but we were surprised because it’s showing nothing on the interface. We doubled checked to make sure that we are connected online but still it’s not showing anything.

I logged in on my Twitter account, and that’s where I saw what hit me “You’re account is suspended”.

What happened? Have I done something wrong? Did I violate Twitter’s Terms and Conditions?

I quickly checked Twitter’s Terms of Service and Rules and Policies. Unfortunately, I could not find anything there that I may have violated,  except (maybe) for these two:

• If you have followed a large amount of users in a short amount of time;
• If you have followed and unfollowed people in a short time period, particularly by automated means (aggressive follower churn);

I admit that I follow and unfollowed people automatically.  I’m using a third party Twitter application to do this for me.

Anyway, after I thoroughly checked that I’m not violating any of Twitter’s TOS, I submitted a ticket to their helpdesk requesting my account to be reinstated because I feel it has been wrongly suspended.

True enough, after just few hours,  my Twitter account was reinstated. Thanks to Debius of Twitter.

The only thing that I don’t like with their support is that they did not tell me what violation I’ve committed. I’d really like to know so I can avoid doing it again in the future.  I don’t know, but for me, suspending an account without warning is totally rude. Also, they did not email me that my account has been reinstated already. I only learned about it when I checked on the request ticket on their help page.

Anyway, my only consolation is that they reinstated my account. Now I can tweet again!