My Restricted Twitter Account Is it only coincidental that my last tweet was a reply to a "I love blocking advertisers" tweet from a verified account: "I love seeing commercial promotional accounts on non-commoditized social platforms frozen, limited, or suspended. Let us have our quaint convos w/o product placement, bots, and disinfo minions." I also had been researching 'nitter' in another tab, and declined to verify my phone number. I did wonder why the restriction happened, but I see on the /r/Twitter subReddit other users are mystified they too are restricted for 'unusual activity.' I assumed at first it was due to some improper and inaccurate algorithm for content. Now I suspect some 'sooper sekrit' complicated algorithm targets seemingly random accounts, and there is actually no 'unusual activity' to account for the restriction: no rapid addition of followers, no spate of rapid tweets, no content algorithm. My Twitter account is almost 12 years old. Related: my IP address was blocked by a grocery lists website, and an Amsterdam server hosting a friend's Calibre library. Nothing I did, so I can blame either my no-tech-skills-thus-no-hacker son or the internet provider. I used Tor to get to the Calibre library. I'm thinking the universe is sending me a message with these sudden unexplained blocks.