Twitter: FOSTA, Shadow-Bans, Switter and Adult Advertising

There has recently been a lot of commotion in the community in regards to FOSTA/SESTA and how they will impact the ability of cam girls to advertise. It has been speculated the all social media will become even more anti-adult, and many are worried about what may happen to their Twitter accounts. Since Twitter has already began shadow banning models, it is definitely feasible to believe that they could ban adult posts entirely, which is very disappointing considering Twitter has always been the “safe social media” where adult performers could post pretty much anything they wanted to. So what can you do if you’re worried about losing your Twitter down the line?

Using Twitter While Shadow-Banned

You can continue to use your Twitter shadow banned, but it is kind of counteractive to the purpose of what Twitter is in the adult community, which is a form of out reach to current and potential customers. Now, the potential part is where it gets hard, because the only way to get potential customers if you are shadow banned is through retweets, which will then target the followers of whoever retweets you. The problem with this is we get stuck in a constant loop of retweeting to accounts which are shadow banned. While the adult community is very large, you would have better luck reaching a larger base if you were not shadow banned or if the people retweeting you aren’t shadow banned.

There are two ways to get around this problem: you can get yourself un-shadow banned, or you can post more relatable content that will reach a larger group of people because it is being retweeted by groups which aren’t shadow banned.

Getting Un-Shadow Banned (Deleting tweets/replies/media)

If you’d like to keep your account strictly adult/advertisement related and aren’t very funny, there are other ways to get more traffic to your page. I personally did it myself, and it’s actually pretty easy to accomplish. You can do it yourself (but it’ll take a while) or you can use a website to do it for you, but you’re going to want to basically wipe your Twitter clean. Delete all tweets/replies/media. I used TweetDeleter.com and paid the membership fee to do it one time then cancelled my membership after, if you become un-shadow banned it is a worth while investment.

If you use a website it’ll take a day or two depending on how much you tweet, I had over 15,000 tweets and it took me a full day. Make sure to go through and save any photos you’ve posted that you want to hold on to, because everything will no longer be accessible once you go through with your tweet cleanse. Once you do that, you’re going to want to make sure all of your auto-tweeting sites are turned off unless it is a site that does not use hashtags.

Automated Hashtag Tweets – Major Cause Of Shadow Bans!

A huge offender of getting accounts shadow banned is the #MVSales hashtag, which if you search on Twitter you will find barely any tweets (unless it’s people you follow) so make sure your MV promo blaster is off. If you will miss the exposure from the promotion, you can create your own censored previews/photos and every time you make a sale tweet out the preview and link to the video without hashtags. It is more work, but it’ll also make sure you don’t get shadow banned. Another key to not getting shadow banned is not posting nudes. It sucks, but think… one day if Twitter becomes all non-nude everyone will actually have to start paying and value nudity again! This could be a step in a good direction (besides the obvious flaws, let’s try to look at the positives!)

Doing This Got My Shadow Ban Lifted!

After doing a full cleanse of my Twitter account and only posting SFW images, and making sure all my auto-tweets were off, it took about 2 weeks for my account to return to normal. I still follow and associate with shadow banned members of the community and it doesn’t seem to effect my account. I’m officially not shadow banned, yay! You will notice that your interactions will start to go back up again.

How To Check If You’re Shadow Banned

Not sure if you’re shadow banned? Head over to Twitter (not signed in) and search your username, if you don’t automatically pop up as an option to click, you’re probably shadow banned. You can also use Nicebrain’s Shadow Ban Checker.