# Silenced!

By [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again) · 2009-09-09

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Today, I got my first dose of Twitter smack down, as [my account](http://twitter.com/nickgrossman) was suspended [along with a bunch of others](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/tweeting-about-the-gov-2-0-summit-may-cause-serious-account-suspension/) following yesterday's [Gov 2.0 Expo](http://gov20expo.com).  Ouch!  Well, at least I'm in [good](http://twitter.com/timoreilly) [company](http://twitter.com/mlsif). As [one of the commenters on the Tech Crunch article noted](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/tweeting-about-the-gov-2-0-summit-may-cause-serious-account-suspension/#comment-2973703), a situation like this is definitely a bit of a wake-up call about relying on one service for your communications.  I felt eerily powerless this morning when I couldn't tweet about not being able to tweet...

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*Originally published on [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again/silenced)*