Fred Moss / 16 November 2024 / Categories: Internet, Social Networks, Web Companies, Useful Guides

X formerly known as Twitter

How to get suspended X account unblocked

X formerly Twitter

I got blocked out of Twitter. X. My account was suspended. I have had the account since 2013 when we started the Poopsnoop community experiment. I use it to share snoops and promote the Poopsnoop community.

It is upsetting to have your account blocked. You feel upset, all that time and effort building a following and mine isn’t that big. When I had the same thing happen on Facebook 10 years ago, I tried and tried to get my account back up. In the end I gave up completely and have never used Facebook since. So I wasn’t hopeful for a positive outcome from X.

I went to help files believing there wasn’t any point. There were three or four suggestions of things to try to get your account back active and reinstated.

In the help files it told me I was either suspected in being a spam account or someone in the X Twitter community had complained about my posts. My posts are basic, not political, not inflammatory in any way so I knew this wasn’t the case. I followed all the steps, none of which worked.

My final option was to file an appeal to the suspension. I honestly had absolutely no faith in the process but did it anyway and then each day following checked my email to see if there had been any response.

I never received a reply.

This morning 4 or 5 days later, I tried logging in to my X account @poopsnoops and what can I tell you I am back up and running.

To sum up, it seems X like Poopsnoop don’t want fake and spam, they want real and authentic. Whatever your feelings are about the worlds first trillionaire Elon Musk, X thought I was not meeting there expectation, they blocked suspended me but gave me the opportunity to have my say and then reinstated my account.

I wanted to write this for anyone else experiencing the same thing as I did feel anxiety and frustration when I was suspended, and very happy when I was able to appeal and get my account back up.

Go through the appeals process you are NOT talking to a black hole.