Is Someone Trying To Get My Twitter Account Banned?

Like I said, that's a down draw with twitter, you can easily get banned, without doing anything.

Interesting. You also say bleach wherever I think you mean breach. Just sayin..

Hello, any update on this? We are interested and curious how this one figures out! SY

Its really surprising to know that a huge site like twitter has such a bug. I think those who knew this bug has really exploited it to their benefit and play some pranks with people they hate.

I can't believe Twitter suspended your account. I hope it's just temporary while they figure out what's going on.

Finally I see your account is suspended in Twitter. I think this is sad part of Twitter.

Start up a backup account John, we'll join you on both! :)
Tell them you have 50,000 people willing to sign a petition to reinstate your twitter acct!
Funny I get DM's from people I don't know telling to to buy this or that, and when I look at their account they've sent out 100 messages exactly the same. But Twitter leaves them alone.

i am so much worried about your twitter account & you have massive followers (56671) there, Previous problem is resolved about user name and password, i hope you will get back your twitter account soon.

I see your Twitter account is suspended. That sucks.

Same thing happened with Eric Rockefeller.

Hope you get it back quickly John

:o That's crazy. Twitter seems to have a number of very open (but obscure) flaws like this. The first one was found out by some turkish hacker or something on accident. Like someone else said, good think I'm not too into twitter :p

there are always that kind of idiots who try to steal someone's online info

My twitter account was one of those that was forced to follow you. It was forced to follow Alvin Phang, Jonathan Volk and some other internet marketers as well. Hope this will be fixed soon./.

i think your site is hacked by some one, when ever i will refresh this page a java popup box will opening and asking for user name and password which is following... ==> Authenitication Required a username and password are being requested by http://twitter.com. the site says: "Twitter API"

I realised I was following quite a few people I never actually decided to follow myself, I wonder if this was the reason.

Hey John you account is suspended now!!

I'm one of those people that you (directly or indirectly) force to follow you. Good that you wrote this post (although a direct answer to my question on Twitter would also have been appreciated). I've also written a post about it: http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/when..., because it is quite worrisome if a bunch of people (including you,  jonathanvolk and mrgathersuccess (!?) [all internet marketers] force me to follow them even after blocking. As a matter of fact I'm blocking you on a daily basis.

My guess about the cause is that you used a service that yielded extra followers (like me). There must be leaks on two sides: yours (perhaps having allowed such a service to work) and mine (because I automatically follow you). Furthermore blocking doesn't work, that  is also really odd.

Perhaps good news: Jonathanvolk did some cleaning up (i.e. quit socialoomph) and made his account private. He is no longer following me (knock knock). We should work together to see where the leaks are, and find the service that is doing this.

hmmm...i think someone out there doesn't like you much John :-)

How could someone do such a thing?

What fame comes these drawbacks.

I have a twitter account too but hardly use it lately as i find it getting very spammy these days

Thats good move that you added such issues in your blog in front of whole world at large.

I just cannot understand what these hackers get out of making other peoples life difficult, apart form making money off of inocent people, my wifes email account recently got hacked and to cut a long story short, they asked all her contacts for money as she had been mugged in New York and could not get home.

So sad that some people can't make an honest living.

Be aware people.

Some people have no lives.

Yeah, it keeps happening. I've blocked and reported you as spam several times and you keep turning up in my timeline. I'm changing my password, maybe that will solve the problem with whatever is doing this, but yeah - someone is out to get you.

Just a quick look at your site and tweets though...you seem awful spammy.

I know if it had been a certain well known auction company it would have been ban first, ask questions later (if you actually managed to get hold of someone that is).

At least Twitter has some sort of customer service.

Good luck

Simon

JV was going thru this same thing....weird.

Yeah they are pretty quick to suspend your account if they think you aren't following the rules, so an email sounds like they are trying to get ideas on why it's happening.

It just might be a bug in Twitter. Not sure if someone is trying to plot on John John!

Mmh! John forcing guyz to follow him on Twitter. You would only believe that if you don't read JohnChow.com.

Why would I want to force anyone to follow me anyway? It's that kind of like kidnapping someone to get a date?

It sounds like this is the result of you 'paying for twitter followers' not too long ago. That's what happens when you use a service without doing a background check.

none cares about your twitter account.. don't glorify silly things...

That's unbelievable. I hope that doesn't ban you for this reason.