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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congrats
its i guess 6 months old and I have yet to really find a purposeful use for twitter
Jeremy is back, Congratulation.
Just saw you following me Jeremy
Welcome back to Twitter!
Any word on whether or not you’ll get your account back?
Man, everyone is crazy about TOS violations these days.
that is funny. best wishes
frightening how you can loose your identity online in an instant!
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.
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
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
i posted the fact that that new twitter account was a fake and everyone should help out and do the same!
Darin
did they explain why your account was deleted ? I am sure they will restore it for you.
congrats on the baby. boy or girl ?
Yes, it certainly ruins the moment when you have breaking news and twitter is down.
Forget Twitter….Forget blogging….you just had a baby! Congratulations Jeremy!
congrats!
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.
Congratulations to you and of course to your wife. She did all the hard work
Congrats on the addition to the family. Best Wishes!
And mazeltov, by the way!
Any news on the new arrival as of yet? Twitter needs to pull up their socks, they’re getting loads of negative publicity!
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.
Congrats on the new baby! Best wishes for the newest addition to the S-Family
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.
Gongrats, with the new little shoemoney, and the best of luck to all three of you.
Congrats, read on Chow’s blog all went well – good to hear. Kinda makes the Twitter thing pretty insignificant…
congrats on the new one jeremy!!!
Twitter did the same thing to me so I had to create another account and start all over again.
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.
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
hopefully they won’t return your account. Better that there are less of you people on the net. lol
Congratulations on the little Shoe.
your twitter account was rocking, and i hope you come back on.
anyway the important thing is — congratulations!
Congratulation J for the new baby, and I hope that you can get back your twitter account.
Cheers man
Talk about commitment, fooling with twitter in the hospital room, Congrats your next edition.
Congrats Shoe. I hope the download goes well.
Congrats! Are you going to be leaving the show then?
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
Congratulations and best wishes.
Hope everything tuns out fine. Congrats!
Congratulations Jeremy for the baby
and as we say here in france
“un prompt rétablissement à la maman”
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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……..
says the guy with 20+ twitter accounts..
Congratulations!
Congrats on the new addition to the family! Twitter should be the last thing on your mind.
I hate twitter, can’t delete posts, service is off line half the time, it’s slow, 140 chars limit is way to small…
Jeremy, congratulations to you and your “growing” family. Such wonderful news.
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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…
Congratulations on your new arrival! Post pics real soon, OK!
As for Twitter……well……it seems to be sinking fast!
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.
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Omigosh!! I’m so incredibly happy for you guys! Hope the delivery goes smoothly. Wow, can this world handle another Shoe?
congratulations on the new baby
I’m sure your Twitter account will be back up in no time – until then, worry about your beautiful babe! Congratulations!
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!
When you see your baby’s face, you will forget about Twitter (for a few hours)
Congrats: Go have your baby the Internet will be here when you get back. Next is Grampa.
Congrats Shoe!
Looking foward to seeing those pictures.
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.
Devote your attention to Friendfeed instead. It’s gaining marketshare and will eventually overtake Twitter anyway.
Congrats on the baby! Don’t worry, the Twitter thing will work itself out.
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
congratulations on the new baby! Bad timing on Twitter’s part.
Congratulations on the new addition!
Congrats on the newborn. I hope everythign works out for you. Good luck
Matt
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Congrats!
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.
Rock on man! Take care of that baby.
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??!!?
goodluck!
Congrats man!! Yeah you totally have bigger fish to fry beside some online social network.
hope all go well with the labor
that is funny. best wishes
what kind of idiot pretends to be other people! im sure twitter will sort it for ya
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.
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.
Good Luck Shoe or should I say Papa Shoe?
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
Congratulations, and we’re thinking of you. Best of luck to all three of you!
Congratulations! 2nd one is usually pain-free. Hope all goes all
Al the best,
MP