Prlog :14 Mar 2012
Celebrity author and social media persona Sarah-Jayne Gratton (@grattongirl) was suspended several days ago by Twitter, the very social media platform she is writing about in her forthcoming book - "Follow Me".
Sarah-Jayne Gratton is a well known social media celebrity and the European correspondent for the US Show You Are The Supermodel. Due to the success of her latest book, Zero to 100,000, which was released in October 2011, Gratton was approached by publishers Wiley to author their new book on Twitter, "Follow Me".
The irony is that Gratton was suspended from Twitter on Saturday 10th March, with no explanation being given by the platform as to why the suspension had occurred. The huge popularity of @grattongirl was brought to Twitter's attention by the hundreds of tweets being sent to their @support department demanding that she be unsuspended, many with the hashtag #UnSuspendGrattonGirlTweets. One from @martinchinnery read "How can the queen of Twitter be suspended? This is an outrage! #UnsuspendGrattonGirlTweets"
Twitter were quick to respond with a personal apology to @grattongirl for what they termed a "technical error" and her account was reinstated early on Monday 12th March.
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