To all Twatters trying to spread The Great Awakening, maybe this info will help others.

So there was a huge purge yesterday. In my case, I have an old Twatter account and never provided a phone number. I use it only on a computer. I won't install it on a cellphone. Instead of telling me I broke some rule, they restricted my account saying they noticed "suspcious behavior" and suspected the account "may have been hacked". I wasn't outright banned, but they won't let me login unless I provide a phone number. I'm in the process of appealing this and told them I only have a landline, so there's no way they can verify via text message. We'll see if that works.

In any case, when I looked at my profile, my FOLLOWING number was reset at zero. I didn't lost my less than 100 followers, I lost the entire list of who I was following. They must be restricting or banning en masse the followers of the big Q accounts now.

I made another account using an email and within 24 hours, they did the same thing, since I didn't/won't give a phone number.

If you have a small account and are (so far) being left alone, my suggestions to you are:

1) Make a written or typed list of the Twitter handles of the people you follow, and then UNFOLLOW them. Visit their profiles daily.

2) Don't Retweet anything from anyone. Just copy and paste what the other person did. Make a slight change to the text.

3) For words that might trigger Twitter censors that aren't part of a URL, do things like use zero instead of the letter O, the number 3 for the letter E, the letter V for the letter U, etc.

For now, we'll see if I get my original account back. If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get around the phone number thing?