Sunday, July 5th, 2009: A lot of people with legitimate Twitter accounts are currently suffering from having their accounts suspended (late Sunday afternoon). It appears IAMP's twitter account was caught in the cross fire so we contacted twitter to inquire.
We just heard back from Twitter via email, and they said : “Spamcloud hit. We’re working on restoring accounts.”
We just need to be patient. The suspended accounts will be restored.
Update: We have no idea exactly what a “spam cloud” means. It is probably Twitter staff lingo for a massive spam attack.
Update: We have seen during previous spam attacks that Twitter tends to shoot first and ask questions later and indiscriminately lay down carpet bombing when their system comes under a spam attack. A lot of innocent-bystander accounts get massacred in the process, which they then have to restore afterwards. This is most likely what has happened again.
So those following IAMP on twitter, please be patient, we will be up and running again shortly!
Here are some useful links:
http://twitter.com/twitter
http://status.twitter.com/post/136164828/restoring-accidentally-suspended-accounts
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