I was suckered in by a pack of Trolls into responding and in my defense Twitter banned me. I was even defending attacks on media presenters.

I was prior generating genuine content that people found interesting (no it wasn’t porn etc)

Because my interest was primarily politics I did follow hashtag streams for obvious reasons. I wasn’t a business and always had pure intent.

If you are running a business set up a few accounts, one for followers.

One for promotional info but don’t send out a gazillion tweets as people wont read it.

One disposable account for abusing trolls attacking you.

Always lead any potential customer away from Twitter over to your website and other media because Twitter don’t respect any contribution you may make.

When the trolls come switch to another account and let them have it as Twitter just delete their own content drivers

Twitter are listening to trolls Twitter self reporting algorithm because they are too dumb to work out they are cannibalizing their best & brightest contributors.

Have an exit strategy

If not, well, that’s it for Twitter. No immediately, but once that kind of commercially driven censorship sets in, it’ll be game over with all the smartest users racing for the exits and a descent into myspace irrelevance.