Twitter Admit Its Mistake

July 10, 2009 | By eric | 6 Comments »

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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

6 Comments »


  • Comment by Vera |
    July 12, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    My twitter account was suspended for almost a month! It’s restored already but I find myself not using it as much as I did before the suspension.

    Reply here

  • Comment by 113Tidbits |
    July 13, 2009 at 2:25 am

    Human error was to blame for all of this nonsense. Also, the hman was trying to suspend accts that looked shady because of the recent DDOs attacks by hackers.

    Reply here

  • Comment by femmepower |
    July 13, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    If it’s any consolation,good thing they admitted their mistake and corrected it at once. =) ey,i’m sending you an email.i have something to confide and i need your expertise hehehe.

    Reply here

  • Comment by Jade |
    July 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Didn’t know about this…Oh well I am not that active in Twitter anyway.

    Btw thanks for the greetings! I am very happy now:)!!!

    Reply here

  • Comment by Stancje Wroclaw |
    July 15, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Maybe it was just some angry employee who after getting fired used his last hours to ban as many accounts as possible. Those things happen from time to time.

    Reply here

  • Comment by Chris Astadan |
    July 22, 2009 at 12:00 am

    at ang balita nga rin daw nahahack na ang account mo sa twitter..tsk tsk tsk.. lalo na daw pag marami ka nang follower..may bigla na lang magttweet na hindi mo naman twitted sa account mo

    Reply here



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