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I ran into the exact same situation. Have been trying to get in contact with their support for weeks without getting any response at all. This is absolutely ridiculous! (Yet at the same time they get "hacked" by teenagers and I can't help but to feel karma has been served...)

edit: Should anybody from Twitter read this, please unblock @FrontAid_CMS. (I guess it's worth a try...)

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Tex payer funded government organizations(like USGS) post information on private platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Their ability to ban users for arbitrary reasons is problematic.

You don't need a Twitter account to read those messages on Twitter.

It's also not the only channels by which that information is disseminated.

> You don't need a Twitter account to read those messages on Twitter.

Didn't the courts rule that the president can't block people on twitter? That seems to suggest "just read while logged out" isn't a valid excuse the courts will accept.

They ruled that elected politicians cannot block individuals from participating in the replies to their tweets because they deemed it was the equivalent of a public space. They didn't rule that Twitter couldn't themselves moderate who posts on the platform.

> they deemed it was the equivalent of a public space.

Then how Twitter is allowed to moderate who posts on "the equivalent of a public space"? By banning a user Twitter blocks the user from participating in such a public space.

Because the law restricts government officials from banning interactions from the public, not private companies doing that on their private property.

Sounds like a loophole if the government official uses a friendly private space. I think private space should lose such an ability to the extent where it is being "deputized" that way for the government official. Thus even banned accounts must be allowed to interact with Trump for example (as long as the accounts stays in the legal space of course).

> sounds like a loophole

That is not uncommon in the effects of the law overlapped with court rulings. If nobody has tried to challenge the loophole directly in court, then the law is mute on how it would interpret the situation faced with a contradiction.

You can't really search on Twitter while logged out. Browsing while logged out is nice, however, because the little annoyances remind me that the physical world is a better place to exist than there.

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