I have several accounts that I use for testing Twitter apps. One of them, bullmancuso, was shut down last October. A few weeks ago I petitioned to have the account restored.
This evening I got an email from the Twitter support person BFF, who explained:
"Your account was suspended because our specialists found that your tweets were primarily links to other sites and not personal updates, a violation of Twitter Rules."
http://ping.fm/ROHyy
It's true of that account but it's also true of the NYTimes and many other news oriented Twitter sites.
I suggest they take another look at this.
And it's a reminder once again that we're playing in someone else's ballpark here, and they make the rules. This is not in any way like the Internet.
http://bit.ly/07eee0X