In recent times, Twitter suspended several major crypto-related accounts, which included some of the sectors biggest influencers. Based on a March 10 tweet by Peter McCormack, a bitcoin (BTC) podcaster, up to six cryptocurrency-related accounts had been suspended by the social media platform.
The listed accounts include some of the most prominent names on Twitter with more than 300,000 subscribers, including BTC stock-to-flow model creator PlanB and Bitcoin on-chain analyst Willy Woo. Also, crypto advocate TheCryptoDog was not spared by these suspensions.
Other industry-related accounts that have also been suspended include TheMoon, Koroush AK, MMCrypto, and WSBChairman. WSBChairman purports that the account is not associated with Reddits r/WallStreetBets community.
At the time of writing, five of the listed accounts are still inaccessible, while PlanB and Willy Woo‘s accounts seem to have been recovered. Currently, PlanB’s account seems to be entirely restored, while Willy Woo has about 600 followers.
Despite that brief suspension of PlanB‘s account, Twitter did not pull down some of the prominent cryptocurrency influencer’s impersonators. Twitter user Ankeborgare said that some of the phony PlanB accounts like 100TrillionUSDT and 100TrillionUSDD were not suspended on the social media platform as part of the latest series of bans and suspensions.
On March 8, Twitter Support said that it has lately been experiencing a “rise in cases” of mistaken account suspensions.