Two weeks ago, Spotify which is one of the most followed Swedish brands on Twitter, were suspended on Twitter for two days without any further information. In a comment to my blog post a representative from Spotify said it was due to technical reasons at Twitter.
Today I noticed that TV4, the largest Swedish tv channel, have also been suspended on Twitter. According to some recent data I have saved, TV4 have some 1,200 followers on Twitter.
The suspended account is @tv4se
I’ve seen a lot of other people having 5K+ followers. How come these keep getting banned?
Twitter’s huge. They shouldn’t be having any tecnical problems… 🙂
This whole “suspended” thing is a real mess – as I wrote in the comments to your Spotify post Per.
It just gets worse the more you look at it. What I’ve noticed today with the @tv4se suspension is that when an account is suspended it comes up as “no such account” if you look at http://twitter.com/tv4se when not logged in (although it does give a 200 – found http status code)
Plus, all of your historical statuses return a 404 – page not found.
Take this tweet as an example…
Google’s cache of the tweet:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NUDgEeykylsJ:twitter.com/tv4se/status/4628231130976256
The tweet itself (which at the time of writing gives a “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!” 404):
http://twitter.com/tv4se/status/4628231130976256
Technical problem or whatever it is, Twitter needs to sharpen up it’s act – especially when it comes to business accounts.
@James, Totally agree. When you access @tv4se on Twitter mobile it says the account has been suspended due to strange activity. I don’t think most brands would appreciate that kind of statements from a service provider, even from one that is free of charge.