[Jpost] A group of popular Twitter accounts that tweet about open source intelligence (OSINT) and generally try to highlight developing and breaking news stories were suspended on Saturday night for unspecified reasons. They join a growing list of account suspensions -sometimes for political reasons, but also for more arbitrary reasons that have alarmed users of the popular social media platform.
As of 12.30 Sunday, INTELLIPUS was back up. ELINT News is still down. Intel Crab is still up, blames suspensions on India.
Users feared that censorship or targeted complaints by a foreign government had resulted in the suspension. Steve Lookneer, a News Anchor at Agenda Free TV pointed out that an account called Beep Delete was suspended on Saturday night. An account named Intel Doge (@Inteldoge) wrote "welcome to Twitter, report on things that people don’t like, get mass reported, get banned."
The concern began when an account named Elint News (@ELINTNews) |