My wife went into labor at 5am this morning. On the way to the hospital I shot a quick twitter sms from my phone letting people know. I got back a error message but did not think that much about it because of all the issues especially with SMS.
So as I am sitting in the hospital room I am browsing the web on my phone I try to log into twitter and it tells me that my account has been deleted but I can restore it. So I try to restore it and it tells me that it is deleted because it was in violation of terms of service.
I will tell you I sent 1 spam through twitter and used the API as it is exactly spelled out. I added and deleted some people playing with the api a few weeks back seeing how it worked but have not messed with it since.
I have always been a huge advocate of twitter and we have raved about it on our show weekly. I also have implemented twitter on my blog as you can see in the top right corner.
One thing about having a very popular site is people try to make a quick buck and target you. It looks like within minutes of the account being deleted someone made this account
http://twitter.com/shoemoneymedia
and made it look like it was me. It is NOT me.
I remember a similar thing happened to Seth Godin not to long ago.
I have bigger fish to fry right now like my wife and our new baby who could be due at any minute but I just wanted to let people know.
Hopefully twitter will return my support requests.
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December 5, 2008 at 8:53 pm
congrats
September 9, 2008 at 10:39 pm
its i guess 6 months old and I have yet to really find a purposeful use for twitter
October 2, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I definitely thought the same thing, but finally broke down and gave it a shot. It has produced an amazing amount of traffic to my blog by sharing quality, relevant news with my market.
People will also visit your main site when posted in your profile, so it is just another way to advertise your business while educating your market.
July 10, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Jeremy is back, Congratulation.
July 9, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Just saw you following me Jeremy
Welcome back to Twitter!
July 7, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Any word on whether or not you’ll get your account back?
July 7, 2008 at 10:16 am
Man, everyone is crazy about TOS violations these days.
July 7, 2008 at 9:24 am
that is funny. best wishes
July 7, 2008 at 3:32 am
frightening how you can loose your identity online in an instant!
July 6, 2008 at 12:06 am
People’s life is a game. You can win a million dollars and loose it in five minutes. So everything is done for the better.
July 5, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Congrats Shoe, hope all goes well with the baby. LOL..I gotta say that only a true diehard IM’er would sit and fiddle with Twitter or the like on the way to the hospital
July 4, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Wow, that guy followed me and I guess I will unfollow. If you violate the Twitter TOS, they should send you a warning, not delete your account (especially a well-established one such as yours). With all the bad publicity Twitter is getting lately, this isn’t helping matters.
But on a happier note, congratulations on the baby and I hope everything went well
July 4, 2008 at 3:42 pm
i posted the fact that that new twitter account was a fake and everyone should help out and do the same!
Darin
July 4, 2008 at 3:10 pm
did they explain why your account was deleted ? I am sure they will restore it for you.
congrats on the baby. boy or girl ?
July 4, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Yes, it certainly ruins the moment when you have breaking news and twitter is down.
July 4, 2008 at 11:52 am
Forget Twitter….Forget blogging….you just had a baby! Congratulations Jeremy!
July 4, 2008 at 11:01 am
congrats!
July 4, 2008 at 9:56 am
Shoe, read you a lot, but TAC has got to be the shittiest thing I have ever seen. I mean your own YouTube videos look better than this pile of crap.
July 4, 2008 at 9:26 am
Congratulations to you and of course to your wife. She did all the hard work
July 4, 2008 at 7:42 am
Congrats on the addition to the family. Best Wishes!
July 4, 2008 at 4:52 am
And mazeltov, by the way!
July 4, 2008 at 4:51 am
Any news on the new arrival as of yet? Twitter needs to pull up their socks, they’re getting loads of negative publicity!
July 4, 2008 at 4:50 am
Something didn’t look right on your so-called new Twitter site so I came here just to double check before following. I’m sure everything will be up and running for you again on Twitter shortly. However, congrats on the arrival of the baby. Many blessings.
July 4, 2008 at 4:12 am
Congrats on the new baby! Best wishes for the newest addition to the S-Family
July 4, 2008 at 3:36 am
Congrats, hope you will get some good rest. With a new born child, it will take up some sleep of yours to take care of your new baby.
July 4, 2008 at 3:23 am
Gongrats, with the new little shoemoney, and the best of luck to all three of you.
July 4, 2008 at 3:13 am
Congrats, read on Chow’s blog all went well – good to hear. Kinda makes the Twitter thing pretty insignificant…
July 4, 2008 at 1:11 am
congrats on the new one jeremy!!!
July 3, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Twitter did the same thing to me so I had to create another account and start all over again.
July 3, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Congrats on the baby Shoe.
Sorry to hear about the Twitter thing… that’s really crappy and comes at a bad time. Hope it all works out.
July 3, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I’m wishing you and your wife an easy delivery! I got a friend add from shoemoneymedia…i will delete them now that I know better! sheesh! Hope your twitter account gets fixed soon! ~Laura
July 3, 2008 at 7:05 pm
hopefully they won’t return your account. Better that there are less of you people on the net. lol
July 3, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Congratulations on the little Shoe.
July 3, 2008 at 6:07 pm
your twitter account was rocking, and i hope you come back on.
anyway the important thing is — congratulations!
July 3, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Congratulation J for the new baby, and I hope that you can get back your twitter account.
Cheers man
July 3, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Talk about commitment, fooling with twitter in the hospital room, Congrats your next edition.
July 3, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Congrats Shoe. I hope the download goes well.
July 3, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Congrats! Are you going to be leaving the show then?
July 3, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Congrats also sucks about twitter account hope you get it back most likely you will cause of the TM. keep all of us updated shoe
July 3, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Congratulations and best wishes.
July 3, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Hope everything tuns out fine. Congrats!
July 3, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Congratulations Jeremy for the baby
and as we say here in france
“un prompt rétablissement à la maman”
@+
July 3, 2008 at 4:27 pm
sweet. can’t wait for the sixth member of our team to arrive. take it easy and don’t stress. i’ve been threatening people with physical violence and getting people to buy our 2nd straight win tomorrow so we can just goof off and show what affiliate marketing is really about……..
July 3, 2008 at 3:50 pm
says the guy with 20+ twitter accounts..
July 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Congratulations!
July 3, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Congrats on the new addition to the family! Twitter should be the last thing on your mind.
July 3, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I hate twitter, can’t delete posts, service is off line half the time, it’s slow, 140 chars limit is way to small…
July 3, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Jeremy, congratulations to you and your “growing” family. Such wonderful news.
-Tom S.
July 3, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Congrats on your new addition, I am a stay at home dad with 2 little ones. I do enjoy the challenge of trying to find that perfect balance between Dad and new blogger…
July 3, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Congratulations on your new arrival! Post pics real soon, OK!
As for Twitter……well……it seems to be sinking fast!
July 3, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Congrats,
Sounds like Twitter is the New MyBlogLog for you. All these Web 2.0 companies start out wide open, then try and crack down on spam and bogus accounts. If they just invested a little more time and efforts into creating a terms of service and acceptable use policies before going public stuff like this might not happen as often.
Bradford M. Knowlton
http://x86v.com/
July 3, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Omigosh!! I’m so incredibly happy for you guys! Hope the delivery goes smoothly. Wow, can this world handle another Shoe?
July 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm
congratulations on the new baby
July 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I’m sure your Twitter account will be back up in no time – until then, worry about your beautiful babe! Congratulations!
July 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Congratulations and I hope Twitter figures things out. I’m pregnant with #3 and already thinking about how to have my husband handle my sites for me when I’m in the hospital. These things have to happen when you have the least time for them!
July 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm
When you see your baby’s face, you will forget about Twitter (for a few hours)
July 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Congrats: Go have your baby the Internet will be here when you get back. Next is Grampa.
July 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Congrats Shoe!
Looking foward to seeing those pictures.
July 3, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Congrats…..I have my first on the way HOPEFULLY in a week…my wife is getting antsy. And the dude who said spend time with your family needs to relax…..i doubt shoe will be texting and browsing the web when his wife is screaming in pain….there’s a big amount of down time with labor…esp. at the beginning.
July 3, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Devote your attention to Friendfeed instead. It’s gaining marketshare and will eventually overtake Twitter anyway.
July 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Congrats on the baby! Don’t worry, the Twitter thing will work itself out.
July 3, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hay congrats! I hope your wife and the baby is fine now!
That guy did set everything up (including background etc.) just like you.
But I don’t think you should care much right now. Fudge ‘em. Be with your family. You can deal with that crack head later
All the best to you & your family. Do post up some pictures of the baby later. Cheers
July 3, 2008 at 1:43 pm
congratulations on the new baby! Bad timing on Twitter’s part.
July 3, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Congratulations on the new addition!
July 3, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Congrats on the newborn. I hope everythign works out for you. Good luck
Matt
Start a home business on the internet
July 3, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Congrats!
July 3, 2008 at 1:21 pm
If you are getting this kind of treatment, then I’m glad I was banned from adsense when competition uploaded porn profiles on my site and reported.
July 3, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Rock on man! Take care of that baby.
July 3, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Twitter seems to be having a lot of lately. To many tweets ect. Though I don’t use it I believe that it is a great concept. I guess they didn’t expect to blow up. I hope everything works out, I mean what would you do without it??!!?
July 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm
goodluck!
July 3, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Congrats man!! Yeah you totally have bigger fish to fry beside some online social network.
July 3, 2008 at 12:51 pm
hope all go well with the labor
July 3, 2008 at 12:46 pm
that is funny. best wishes
July 3, 2008 at 12:43 pm
what kind of idiot pretends to be other people! im sure twitter will sort it for ya
July 3, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Shoe,
Step away from the electronics… It will be okay… Your family is more important than anything you could possibly be writing about. Twittering on the way to the hospital? Browsing the web from the hospital room? How about focusing a little more on family. Now, I sell smut for a living and probably should not be life coaching anybody, but for the love of Pete… Spend some time with your wife… you won’t have too many more of these moments unless you are irish catholic and plan on having a 20 pack of kids.
July 3, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I can sympathize with you… It always seems when something important in your family is going on, something shitty on the web happens to you… Never fails for me!
I’ll go on a family vacation… 3 hours into the trip I find out my server is under a denial of service attack. Never fails.
You have the right attitude… Put it on the back burner and spend time doing what is important in life.
July 3, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Good Luck Shoe or should I say Papa Shoe?
July 3, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Congratulations! My wife is pregnant too and I’m expecting to be a dad by the end of November. When I read the post, suddenly I thought about the day, when I’ll be on my was to the hospital
Cheers
July 3, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Congratulations, and we’re thinking of you. Best of luck to all three of you!
July 3, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Congratulations! 2nd one is usually pain-free. Hope all goes all
Al the best,
MP