The Upgrade

Twitter’s Suspension Bots Are Out of Control

An innocent account gets caught up in a bot purge, with no explanation why

Published in

OneZero

7 min readApr 11, 2019

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Photo: Matt McGee/CC BY-ND 2.0

WinObs was gone. Snapped away like a Thanos victim with no forwarding address. My long-time Twitter pal Rich Hay’s Twitter account was gray, though not quite dust.

Lance Ulanoff

Written by Lance Ulanoff

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OneZero

Tech expert, journalist, social media commentator, amateur cartoonist and robotics fan.

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