# Silenced! **Published by:** [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://nickgrossman.xyz/) **Published on:** 2009-09-09 **Categories:** products-services, twitter **URL:** https://nickgrossman.xyz/silenced ## Content Today, I got my first dose of Twitter smack down, as my account was suspended along with a bunch of others following yesterday's Gov 2.0 Expo. Ouch! Well, at least I'm in good company. As one of the commenters on the Tech Crunch article noted, 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... ## Publication Information - [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://nickgrossman.xyz/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://nickgrossman.xyz/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@nickgrossman): Subscribe to updates - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nickgrossman): Follow on Twitter ## Optional - [Collect as NFT](https://nickgrossman.xyz/silenced): Support the author by collecting this post - [View Collectors](https://nickgrossman.xyz/silenced/collectors): See who has collected this post