Friday, September 21, 2012

Twitter Has Tinkled In My Cornflakes!




Twitter Has Tinkled In My Cornflakes!


I don't normally bad talk any service, but when you suspend my account without a reason, then you have earned my wrath!  If there was an error committed on my part, then you send me a letter and let me know about the infraction before taking the next step.  This is common business knowledge, heck it's common grade school knowledge!  When you abruptly end my conversation with 12,000 + followers, you make me look bad, and damage my brand name.  There has been no different activity on my account since 2009, so I would very much like to know what made Twitter decide today to destroy a positive relationship between one of their supporters.

To all my Triberr connections (All 282,352 of you) I am sorry but Twitter will not allow me to send out your messages today.  Please feel free to discuss with them why they felt the need to suspend an account that has only promoted authors for the last three years.  For all my readers at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, iBooks, All Romance, Kobo, Createspace,  not to mention the incredible authors that I have befriended and helped support over the years, please forgive me but thanks to Twitter, I can no longer update you on anything.

Now please ask me if I plan on doing any advertising with Twitter!  At this moment I'm considering deleting my account with Hootesuite, and Feed140 since it's apparent without a Twitter account, it's not worth my investment.  Like I said in the beginning of this post, I don't like talking bad about a company, BUT if you can't be responsible for your actions or at LEAST give a valid reason why you've ended a service after three years, then you basically deserve to be called out.

Truly,
Michelle Hughes
A FORMER Twitter user!




7 comments :

  1. Apparently sending out #FF to all the people that have supported you is considering a TOS violation! The account is back up, but I'm so fuming mad with Twitter I have no desire to use it. Be careful about saying thank you... that's the obvious lesson twitter would like you to learn!

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    1. I'm trying to fathom why you'd be targeted. There are certainly accounts with larger numbers of followers, just as there are those with far fewer (like my own). I don't sleep much, so I have tweets going out round the clock, probably because you or Rachel Thompson pointed out how useful that was to do once upon a time. Typically, I have one or two going out an hour, more if Hootsuite's AutoScheduler pops another out for me and more still when I'm being interactive with folks. Sometimes the interaction is chatting and sometimes includes RT stuff from people like you. I concede you're far more socially active than I, but I've tried to pay attention to your actions as I scale mine up. I haven't been suspended and certainly haven't seen you do anything that would warrant it. I need to find their TOS and do some reading. I've got a few brain sectors that get a kick out of analyzing things like that.

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    2. Phoenix,

      It was my #FF that were apparently a violation. I've been doing them since 2009, and I know for a fact that thousands if not hundreds of thousands do them the same way. It's always been my way of saying thank you to people I love to watch. Believe me I was absolutely blown away that they would do something like that.

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  2. That's a TOS violation? I'm not a fan of Twitter anyways and you know that. They suspend my account for that I'll just delete the account as I in some ways don't want it.

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    1. Apparently it is Brian, but that is one of the most popular Friday occurrences on Twitter? Very displeased with how they handled it as well. Since 2009 it has been my practice to send out #FF, not once in those years has a comment been made that it is against their policies.

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  3. have never liked twitter to start with....

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    1. you know I've been a huge twitter supporter for three years so this was a huge blow!

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