My inbox was full of frantic emails today from people on the Tweetmentor course who had suddenly found that their accounts were suspended.
The Twitter status blog says:
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.
So hopefully things will be back to normal soon.
But interestingly, out of the emails I received, about 60% were from poeple frantic that they would lose all of their contacts, and have to start from scratch again, as they hadn’t backed up their followers.
So this seems like a good time to remind you of our side project, Tweetake – Tweetake allows you to back up your followers to a CSV file, in case you lose your account, or something else happens.
With the CSV list you could easily contact each of your followers and explain the situation, asking them to help you by retweeting your request, and soon have your account back up to scratch (unfortunately there is no import function in Twitter yet, so there is a little work involved, but we figure it’s better than nothing).
You can also back up the people you follow, and your recent Tweets – current Twitter API limitations means that we can only retrieve the last 1000 records, so I’d recommend backing up each part separately.
GOOD MORNING: THIS IS DANCINLOR FROM TWITTER.
MY ACCOUNT WAS SUSPENDED 6/30/09 AT 11:20 A.M., BECAUSE DURING MY 3,550 TWEETS FROM 6/5 TO 6/30/09 IT WAS REVEALED AND PROVEN THROUGH CONCRET EVIDENCE AND DOCUMENTATION THAT ASHTON KUTCHER, DEMI MOORE, KIRSTIE ALLEY (SCIENTOLOGIST) AND JOHN MAYER HAVE BEEN, AND STILL ARE CONSPIRING AND COMMUNICATING WITH IRANIAN BASIJI GOVERNMENT SITES TO TRACK INNOCENT IRANIANS TO BE BEATEN, RAPED, AXED, SHOT AND/OR KILLED.
MY ATTORNEYS AND I HAVE ON NUMEROUS TIMES DEMANDED AND REQUESTED THE RELEASE OF MY 3,550 TWEETS. I ALSO REQUESTED THIS DIRECTLY THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE TWITTER ACCOUNT. AFTER MY SUSPENSION, I WENT ONTO MY HUSBAND’S ACCOUNT JVCELLINI – SHOT OFF 90 UPDATES TO THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THEN – SUSPENDED AGAIN.
CEO OF TWITTER, EVAN WILLIAMS IS A CLOSE CLOSE BUDDY OF KUTCHER AND MOORE. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT WILLIAMS IS A PART OF THE CONSPIRACY WITH THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT.
THANK GOD FOR MY IRANIAN FRIEND IN FRANCE – Ikeoo
THANK YOU, LORRIE CELOTTO-CELLINI
Ummm, OK, thanks for that….
I’m fairly sure that shooting off 90 updates to the White House Twitter account is against Twitter’s T&Cs….
This is a really good idea – thanks for the tip. I have saved my followers now. I get so much interesting information from them that I would be quite heart broken if I had to start all over again and would never be able to remember them all.