Filipe C Santos

Twitter Account Suspended Story

Posted by Filipe Santos on 6 July 2009 | 0 Comments

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I was reading an email from an associate and the weirdest thing happened to him. Apparently a call from one of his clients prompted him to the status of this twitter account, in which the client said "your twitter account is suspended!". Upon visiting his profile, the truth laid bare, in fact the twitter account was indeed suspended. My associate figured that this was some sort of rogue policing from the twitter.com staff, until he came across this page: http://bit.ly/3nSj5, indicating that It was in fact human error! As of earlier this morning, his account and everyone else' were restored - but not without both a lesson and bit of fright to be had. Lesson:

*Get prospects from social media sites to your blog and funnel as quickly as possible.
* Fright: Twitter, Facebook or any other social site is in control of your prospects. Not sure about you, but I don't like other people being in control of my destiny and success.

You see, I wasn't ever worried about suspension until this happened and I imagined the scenarios that could transpire far more heinous. It's smart to work on moving Twitter prospects to a blog or your owned online properties. While those social media sites are awesome and functional with very little to no downtime, ask yourself if you still need to consider a fast conversion to your own online properties is a good idea - and I am pretty sure you will agree that it is definitely a YES. Get to it, prepare the funnel and entice your base/prospects to go where you think most appropriate.