{"id":8796,"date":"2013-08-08T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:29:25","slug":"tutus-twitter-suspended-for-aggressive-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8796","title":{"rendered":"Tutu&#8217;s Twitter suspended for &#8216;aggressive following&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tutu4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8797\" alt=\"Desmond Tutu, no twit\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tutu4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desmond Tutu, no twit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has had his Twitter account suspended, hours after joining the service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Users trying to access the Twitter account were greeted by a message saying &#8220;Sorry, that user is suspended&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Twitter user Glenda Nevill, also the Editor of TheMediaOnline, Tutu&#8217;s account was suspended for &#8220;aggressive following&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Dear @Support. Official Desmond #Tutu account suspended for aggressive following but only followed 30. Please sort out asap,&#8221; she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident comes just a few hours after Tutu tweeted that he had been burgled in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eyewitness News reported that burglars entered Tutu&#8217;s home in the early hours of Tuesday morning. It is believed Tutu and his wife were asleep at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tutu apparently discovered that the house had been burgled when he woke up at around 5am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has had his Twitter account suspended, hours after joining the service. Users trying to access the Twitter account were greeted by a message saying &#8220;Sorry, that user is suspended&#8221;. According to Twitter user Glenda Nevill, also the Editor of TheMediaOnline, Tutu&#8217;s account was suspended for &#8220;aggressive following&#8221;. &#8220;Dear @Support. Official Desmond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tutu&#8217;s Twitter suspended for &#8216;aggressive following&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4915,300,429],"class_list":["post-8796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-aggressive-following","tag-desmond-tutu","tag-twitter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tutu4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8798,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions\/8798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}