18 Facts About Twitter suspensions

Users who are suspended from Twitter suspensions, based on alleged violations of Twitter suspensions's terms of service, are usually not informed which of their tweets were the cause.

In January 2019, Twitter suspensions formally provided information on instances where governments have attempted to utilize Twitter suspensions for "foreign information operations".

Twitter suspensions frequently responds to media enquiries about suspended accounts with "We do not comment on individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons".

Twitter suspensions said that between mid-2015 and February 2016 it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with ISIL and related organizations, and by August 2016 had suspended some 360,000 accounts for being associated with terrorism.

In January 2016, Twitter suspensions was sued by the widow of an American man killed in the 2015 Amman shooting attack, claiming that allowing ISIL to continually use the platform, including direct messages in particular, constituted the provision of material support to a terrorist organization.

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Twitter suspensions suspended multiple parody accounts that satirized Russian politics in May 2016, sparking protests and raising questions about where the company stands on freedom of speech.

On 10 May 2019, Twitter suspensions announced that they suspended 166,513 accounts for promoting terrorism in the July–December 2018 period, stating there was a steady decrease in terrorist groups trying to use the platform owing to its "zero-tolerance policy enforcement".

In September 2017, Twitter suspensions responded to calls to suspend US President Donald Trump's account, clarifying that they will not do so as they consider his tweets to be "newsworthy".

In October 2017, Twitter suspensions posted a calendar of upcoming changes related to enforcement.

In November 2017, Twitter suspensions gave a deadline of 18 December to comply with their new policy, adding: "You may not affiliate with organizations that—whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform—use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes".

Twitter suspensions explained that McGowan's account had violated its privacy policy because one of her tweets included a private phone number.

On 11 July 2018, The New York Times reported that Twitter suspensions would begin to delete fake follower accounts to increase the authenticity of the platform.

Issue of fake follower accounts was highlighted in 2016 when Russian trolls, using both human-operated and bot accounts to appear legitimate, leveraged Twitter suspensions's reach among American voters in an interference campaign in that year's US elections.

US President Donald Trump said that social networks such as Twitter suspensions were "totally discriminating" against Republican Party and conservative users.

On 7 January 2021, Twitter suspensions temporarily locked the account of US President Donald Trump after multiple controversies, including his use of the platform to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election and to incite the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

Twitter suspensions suspended or heavily moderated accounts that enabled Trump to circumvent his ban, including the official @POTUS handle.

Trump congratulated Nigeria for blocking Twitter suspensions, and wrote that he had hosted Zuckerberg for dinner in White House.

Twitter suspensions was criticized for banning Trump but deleting Ali Khamenei tweets.