How To Reinstate Your Suspended Twitter Account

By Source Blogger | Published: July 5, 2010

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Article: How to Reinstate Your Suspended Twitter Account

Has your Twitter account been suspended? Not to worry, it’s not like being banned from Google AdSense.

Assuming you haven’t honestly been involved in devious activities like luring Twitter users to sites carrying malware or other malicious content? Have you?

If not, let’s get your account reinstated, shall we?

Accounts are generally suspended for violations of the Twitter Rules; please read the rules to find out more about specific violations. Twitter may also suspend accounts for investigation if they suspect an account has been hacked or compromised.

To petition for account reinstatement, please take the following steps:

1. Confirm that your Account was Suspended

If you suspect that your account has been suspended, please log in to your account here. If your account is suspended, you’ll see a red warning box on your timeline notifying you of account suspension.

You can also find out if you’re suspended by visiting your profile page at twitter.com/[username] (where you replace [username] with your Twitter username). When an account is suspended, we replace the profile page with a page stating the account has been suspended. Please make sure that your account is actually suspended before contacting Support.

2. Check your Email Inbox for More Information

Twitter often sends a notification email directly to the email address associated with your Twitter account; please review that email for additional information about your suspension.

If your account was suspended for aggressive following behaviors, you’ll need to confirm that you’ve removed all prohibited following automation from your account, and will stop any manual aggressive following behavior. You can find information on following automations and permitted following behaviors on the Following Best Practices help page. To expedite your appeal process, please review that help page and be sure to include your confirmation when you file your ticket.

3. File a Support Ticket to Appeal Suspension

To petition for account reinstatement, file a Support request. Be sure to select “my account is suspended” from the drop-down menu. If you submit while logged in to your Twitter account, you’ll be able to check on your ticket status anytime by visiting your Twitter Support home page and clicking “check on your existing requests.”

If you’re unable to submit a request through our help form, please send an email to suspended@twitter.com.

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6 Comments

SEO Training

Posted July 5, 2010 at 8:00 am | Permalink

Thanks for the tips – I wasn’t aware you could be banned, I’ve never seen that screengrab before.

Natasha
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Source Blogger

Posted July 5, 2010 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

Natasha, it’s true.

Fortunately, this article was not written from personal experience! (Laughs)
Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella

Posted July 6, 2010 at 8:52 am | Permalink

Has never happened to me. Thank goodness. But if it ever does, I am now fully prepared and know exactly what to do.

Thanks so much for the great information. Being prepared is the best way to avoid panic responses.
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Jay

Posted May 13, 2011 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

Dear Mr.Baril,

Unfortunately I just have been suspended, I am girl from Asia and I didn,t know anything from until 2 weeks ago when I signed up.
And since it,s good for my work to have many followers I looked around on the internet and tried some programmes to follow and unfollow. Nobody really told me that there were rules and that other progammes are not allowed. Tis surprise me a lot because they pretend if they are authorized by twitter ? and they tell for example today you can follow 950 persons. But as I see now this is not true .
So what can I do best because I would be really sad If lose my account and especially my twitter name.
I am afraid if i tell the truth I lose my account,so can you please advise me what to do best.
I swear I didn,t know all this and I feel very unhappy about this.
Hope to hear from you ,

Kind regards,

Jay
Francisco Rosa

Posted August 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm | Permalink

I just received a message a few minutes ago and I was worried for a few minutes. The email looked genuine. I went to twitter and there was nothing there informating me I had any problem.
Boy, they almost had me.
I noticed the link at the bottom asks you to sign up with an email for an effor and your account will be re-instated. Just spammers trying their ways.

I am usually very alert to protecting the integrity of my account. To the rest of you out there, if you have seen something similar, just to go Twitter to verify the actual acccount status.

Thanks for the advice.
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Dan Reimer

Posted September 18, 2011 at 4:54 pm | Permalink

My Twitter account has been suspended for over 7 days now for now reason I can think of after reviewing Twitter Rules, and Best Practices. I have written to Twitter over a dozen times but only received automated responses. I have no problem following any rule but please let me know which one I have violated (if I did) so I can correct the problem. Twitter support is totally unresponsive and unhelpful in this matter. It is very frustrating not getting any responses or communication from them. I would have also appreciated a warning. They are wasting a lot of their time and my time leaving this issue unresolved. I find their support unacceptable.