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Adrianos is an Internet Defamation attorney in Los Angeles and authors the California Defamation Law Blog. You can also follow Adrianos on twitter at @adrianos

By Adrianos Facchetti:

Can you imagine life without Twitter?

Stop and think about it for a second.

What would it be like? How about imagining baseball without hotdogs, or making phone calls without your iPhone? It’s difficult, right?

Twitter is important to many of us for many reasons, which makes the thought of losing the privilege to tweet almost unfathomable. But, it’s possible and I’m going to show you some simple ways you can keep it from happening.

The first thing you need to do is read Twitter’s Terms of Service. You can find them at the bottom of your Twitter homepage under “Terms.”

When you click on “Terms” you will find a short list of basic terms and conditions. Read them all and then continue reading this post. You will thank me for this.

Did you read them? If not, that’s OK for now because I’m going to boil them down for you.

Don’t spam

This is probably the quickest and most common way to get kicked off of Twitter. How many times have you received a follow from someone like “@MARKETING_SUPERSTAR” or “@Molly,” who happens to be a scantily clad young “lady” with no followers who’s following 1,947 people? Or how about when you receive four or five tweets in a row from a person? Is that spam? I don’t know the answer to that one. A simple rule to follow is to spread out your tweets and treat Twitter like a face-to-face encounter. Courtesy counts.

Don’t harass or abuse anyone

Courtney Love is learning this one the hard way after she was sued for alleged defamatory tweets last month. Bottom line. Do not use profanity. Do not threaten or attempt to intimidate anyone. A good rule of thumb is to keep away from Twitter after 11:00 p.m. (tired) or after a night of drinks. No drunken tweets.

Don’t impersonate anyone

Don’t impersonate celebrities or anyone else for that matter. It’s usually not funny and celebrities REALLY care about their online reputation. Twitter takes this very seriously.

Don’t abuse Twitter

Don’t hack Twitter or attempt to show your hacker buddies how cool you are by introducing a worm or virus to Twitter.

Don’t break the law

This is meant to be broad. Some of the things you should avoid doing are infringing on another person’s copyright or trademark and defamation of character.

Even if you do none of the above, however, Twitter reserves the right “ . . . to refuse service to anyone for any reason at anytime.” But I think if you simply use common sense you’ll be fine.

Have you wondered what your daily life would be like without Twitter? I’d like to know your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

If you don’t leave a comment, your Twitter account may be suspended. Just kidding, or am I?

from :http://www.blogforprofit.com/twitter/why-your-twitter-account-could-be-suspended-at-anytime/

Twitter, by far, is the talk of the tech community.  Just about every tech podcast that I listen too talks a lot about Twitter and how it is now becoming mainstream.  I mean, it is hard to even watch the news or talk shows now because they are always plugging their Twitter account!  I joined Twitter over a year ago – back when it was not that popular.  Sometimes I miss those days…!  All joking aside, I am glad to see people getting into the whole Twitter thing.  It just goes to show that sometimes the simplest ideas can be big hits.

One of the problems with Twitter is that it can be very time consuming.  Even though it is only 140-character messages, following tweets, replying to new followers, etc. takes time.  And since this blog by @jeremylattimore is focused around business efficiency, I thought it would be helpful to offer a brief review of a product that increases your productivity in Twitter.  Since discovering TweetLater a few months ago, I have been keeping it a secret, but this is so good I decided to share!

TweetLater (http://tweetlater.com) is another great third-party Twitter tool that makes tweeting easier on the time schedule.  There are a ton of great features in TweetLater (some of which I will highlight below), but the main function of it is to be able to punch out a ton of tweets and schedule them to hit Twitter at some time in the future.  For example, often times I want to promote a new website or project I am working on.  I know that there are certain times during the day that my followers tend to be present on Twitter – times when I know I can catch their attention.  But instead of having to log in to Twitter at those specific times, I can let TweetLater do the work for me!  I go into my account, write five or six tweets, each different and hopefully audience-grabbing, and then tell TweetLater to send them out at certain times.  The first one I might schedule to go out at 9:00 AM.  Then the next one at 11:00 AM.  Then the next one at 3:30 PM, so forth and so on.  I can literally set-up all of my work-related tweets early in the morning and then not worry about it the rest of the day!  Of course I still send out other tweets during the day, but the ones I know had to go out are already que’d up.

TweetLater also does many other things.  You can setup follower functions, such as sending auto direct message replies, track keywords, setup un-follow  rules, etc.  And with new enhancements coming all the time, I always look forward to how I can utilize TweetLater next.

Finally, what can be better than free?!?!?  TweetLater is just that – all this functionality for free.  Of course there is a paid version as well, which I have not tried yet, but looks to add even more than I have mentioned here.  I encourage you to check it out.  Also, follow the TweetLater website on Twitter at: @tweetlater

Website: http://tweetlater.com

Function: Third-party Twitter tool for scheduling tweets

Cost: Free (also has a paid version)

Grade: A-