I Gave Up Twitter for Lent. Now I’m Suspended. Huh?

Update: my account was restored on April 14. It was marked as spam.

Twitter is broken and no one seems to care.

Though I am definitely lapsed Catholic, there are still some aspects of the faith I strictly adhere to and one of those is giving things up for Lent. One year, I gave up cigarettes and it helped me kick the habit. Most years, it’s related to my diet, like cutting out snacks or soda.

This year, I decided I needed to give up Twitter. While I still need to use Twitter for my job, I didn’t need to tweet or like other’s tweets. It was becoming an increasingly infuriating endeavor. The platform has become overrun with bots, fake accounts, and bad faith actors.

My last tweet, sent on Feb. 25, was aimed at the wave of defeatism when it came to a 2nd term for Donald Trump, of which I had been previously guilty. I wrote:

“Too many anti-Trump folks lamely tweeting about how the debate is bad and we’re gonna lose in November.

No, we are not. Stop saying that. We got this. We will come together after the convention and vote Republicans out of power. No more fatalism. We will win.”

That was my final tweet before Lent commenced. As the coronavirus spread across the country, I continued to use Twitter as a news…