- It is very agitating to have had my twitter account suspended without notification of what
- tweets/direct messages specifically Twitter believes violated their rules. Regardless, in
- accordance with Twitter Rules on what is a violation of this policy, "Under this policy, you can't
- state an intention to inflict violence on a specific person or group of people. We define intent to
- include statements like "1 will", "I'm going to", or "1 plan to", as well as conditional statements like
- "If you do X, I will". Violations of this policy include, but are not limited to: threatening to kill
- someone; threatening to sexually assault someone; threatening to seriously hurt someone and/or
- commit a other violent act that could lead to someone's death or serious physical injury; and
- asking for or offering a financial reward in exchange for inflicting violence on a specific person or
- group of people.*
- None of my tweets feature any of this content. I I tweet a lot about football and sometimes
- about real life experiences of mine, my tweets have never violated this rule before and it is very
- saddening to me that I cannot tweet again because of it
- And in accordance with Twitter's "What is not a violation of this policy?" section: "We recognize
- that some people use violent language as part of hyperbolic speech or between friends*, so we
- also allow some forms of violent speech where it's clear that there is no abusive or violent intent,
- e.g., ""Ilkill you for sending me that plot spoiler!"."*
- Any tweets that use violent language of mine where either a part of hyperbolic speech to make a
- point and describe a situation (certainly not threatening any individual's well-being on twitter) or,
- in the case of older tweets that could have potentially been flagged, between friends (ie, "it's all
- over for u b/itches", referencing a meme in a clearly joking manner).
- I have no history of violations on this account. Regardless, I can see if some of my tweets could
- have been seen as violence and threatening by Twitter despite having explained myself, therefore /
- am wiling to apologise, delete the tweets and promise not to repeat my behaviour if my account is
- restore. I plead you to consider my case with this in mind, even if the tweets I think were flagged
- and explained are not the actual ones that Twitter suspended me for. I think regardless, my
- reasoning still stands for any other tweets that could have been misconstrued.
- *My twitter was an football account that I used to interact with people with similar passions to me
- and grow my following . Because of this misunderstanding, I have one less platform to do this with,
- and feel this is particularly damaging as it took a while to build this following as a young footballer
- of colour. As I say, 'm happy to delete the tweet and apologise for any confusion over tweets that
- were either hyperbole or a joke. Thank you for considering.