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.