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Seems to be a mistake, possibly automated:

>On this post, Twitter messaged that your account is temporarily blocked. You are seeing this message because some unusual activity has occurred from this account.

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Wow. Building and operating a massive unaccountable automated system to deboost and/or silence undesirable speech is now OK because 'it was a mistake'.

Edit. At what point are the users and/or the public at large owed a detailed postmortem for those 'mistakes'?

It seems to be related to hack detection of the account:

https://scroll.in/latest/964035/amuls-twitter-account-blocke...

It is not a mistake. Twitter has been censoring Right wing accounts in India for past 3 years. The modus operandi is to first suspend a popular account and when there is hue & cry reinstate the account citing some stupid policy reason. Twitter is the most politically biased social media outlet in existence today. No doubt about that.

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