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Twitter Temporarily Suspended Baltimore Delegate Robbyn Lewis For ‘Excessive’ Use Of Hashtags

The Baltimore Democrat tweeted she was reinstated Friday following a ban by the social media site for her tweets on transit, climate change.

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Delegate Robbyn Lewis was in violation of rules “prohibiting the misuse of Twitter product features, ” according to Twitter Support, which listed “tweeting with excessive, unrelated hashtags in a single tweet or across multiple tweets" as prohibited.
Delegate Robbyn Lewis was in violation of rules “prohibiting the misuse of Twitter product features, ” according to Twitter Support, which listed “tweeting with excessive, unrelated hashtags in a single tweet or across multiple tweets" as prohibited. (WJZ)

BALTIMORE, MD — Twitter suspended state Del. Robbyn Lewis for tweeting excessively with hashtags about using public transit and addressing climate change, and then gave her account back to her a day later. The Baltimore Democrat tweeted out she was back earlier Friday afternoon.

"Apparently hashtags about transit and African-American women leaders are verboten! I never insult, fight, engage trolls. I just ride the bus and my bike to work and try to love everyone. Back to work! Srsly thank you all!" she tweeted, with the hashtag #FreeAtLast. She said she was using the hashtags in a post to get her colleagues to use transit on Car Free Day, but said she didn’t fully know if that was the reason she was suspended temporarily.

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