It’s not easy to April Fool anyone if we’re in lockdown. I didn’t realise it was April 1st until I checked my phone this morning. Then there was the sudden realisation that it is my elderly Aunt’s birthday. Bollox. That was about 8:30. I got dressed and walked down to the local shop. Thankfully they still have a small stand with birthday cards and the assistant had some first class stamps. I wrote the card outside the shop and posted it. Hopefully she gets it tomorrow. I did call her but wasn’t impressed with myself at all.

I haven’t really achieved too much today. I made a few minor tweaks to the 2 websites. The twitter account is still suspended. I sent off another appeal. The main reason for doing that is that you get a response saying:

Hello,
Thanks for your report. It looks like this is connected with your original case # 0148291820, so we’ve added it to that first report.

We’ll continue our review with this information.

If you have more details you think we should know, please respond to this email to send them our way. We appreciate your help!
Thanks,

That does suggest that they have not made the decision to permanently suspend but as it all seems to be automated I’m not convinced.

As I wrote yesterday I have created a back up Twitter account @tennis_shark . I tweeted a few people asking if they can retweet a message about this. One person has done so. Maybe the others thought it was an April Fool. You can never assume people will help you out.

 

I can see these posts getting shorter and shorter!

I finished going through the videos folder and organised it. I found a few clips that never made it to the site or to Youtube and put them into a new Out Takes video. You will find it at www.youtube.com/Tradeshark .

The supermarkets seem to be calming down a bit. Still long queues in the morning though they are made to look worse than they are due to everyone having to be 2 metres apart. They also only let you in when someone else comes out. Its working pretty well to be fair. I went there around 5pm yesterday and there was no queue. The shelves are looking a bit better too. The toilet roll aisle was almost full! I bought a 9 pack. We didn’t really need it but it was a reflex action.

My Twitter account is still suspended. The appeal seems to be completely automated. I still haven’t had a reason for the suspension but am convinced it’s because I posted a link which included the word coronavirus. Fair enough but if a real human looked at my appeal it wouldn’t take long to see I was not spreading misinformation or similar garbage. Three days and counting. It probably isn’t a long time to be honest although it would be nice if you got some sort of update.

I read on another site that having your Twitter account suspended meant that you suddenly had a lot of extra free time. Well, not really. I have spend more time googling how I can get my account unsuspended than I ever actually spend on Twitter! I have come to the conclusion that I just have to wait a week or so to see if anything happens. It’s not the worst time for it to be suspended I suppose.

I have set a new standby account just in case the old one never comes back.

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Stay safe.