Diary

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.

 

Probably the dullest day that I have had for months.

I was contacted a couple of days ago by the agent of an American sports writer. He writes mainly about tennis and hockey. I assume ice hockey. They asked if I would accept a guest post and do a review of his new book about the Williams sisters. I get asked a lot if I will take guest posts. Usually they are from online casino sites and any articles have the sole job of linking to their products. The quality has always been dire.

I did accept and post one article many years ago. That was only because they agreed to pay a silly amount. It was before one of the slams. Nadal had pulled out but the article banged on about how he was likely to win. I also remember them writing that Feliciano Lopez was a clay court specialist. Class. I took their money and buried the article in my own content.

I received the Cecil Harris article last night. I read through it and posted it around 11 am. I tweeted a link to the blog post.

A couple of hours later I went to check my Twitter timeline and I have been suspended! It is supposed to give a reason but there is nothing. I have filed an appeal which can take up to 7 days although most results I have found on Google suggest it will be less than 36 hours. There was a spike of activity on the account between 12 and 2pm. I do use an app to check for people who I follow but who don’t follow me. I have been deleting them for a while. It only lets me do 100 per day so I thought the app was protecting me from breaking twitter rules.

I also use another app to schedule tweets. It does stop you posting identical posts within, I think, 48 hours. I thought that was also keeping me the right side of Twitter’s rules but perhaps I am wrong. If they decide I am at fault will they give me a warning or shut down the account permanently? It’s hard to know for certain.

There is always something!

EDIT: I mentioned the Twitter suspension in the Skype room just now. Apparently it could be because I used the word coronavirus in the url in the tweet this morning. Some platforms are checking that posts include accurate information.