How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in One Hour and 44 Minutes

Published: August 1, 2008, 12:06 am

In my last post I wrote that I’d just discovered that StumbleUpon had banned me. I’m happy to announce that 1 hour and 44 minutes after posting that - I was unbanned. How did it happen? I put it down to Social Media. Here’s the story: I had a number of people Tweet me 30 or so minutes before I posted my last post telling me that I was banned. I can only presume it happened around that times they all came at once. I reacted quickly by first emailing StumbleUpon using their contact form. I then posted my last post here at ProBlogger This post appeared moments later in my Twitter stream (this happens automatically) I plurked a link to the post. A few minutes later it was submitted to Digg (something I didn’t even consider doing) I received a heap of Twitter responses and the story was re-tweeted by quite a few of my followers I received a Direct Message tweet within moments fro a follower who gave me the email address of the community manager at StumbleUpon - I

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