My wife went into labor at 5am this morning. On the way to the hospital I shot a quick twitter sms from my phone letting people know. I got back a error message but did not think that much about it because of all the issues especially with SMS.

So as I am sitting in the hospital room I am browsing the web on my phone I try to log into twitter and it tells me that my account has been deleted but I can restore it. So I try to restore it and it tells me that it is deleted because it was in violation of terms of service.

I will tell you I sent 1 spam through twitter and used the API as it is exactly spelled out. I added and deleted some people playing with the api a few weeks back seeing how it worked but have not messed with it since.

I have always been a huge advocate of twitter and we have raved about it on our show weekly. I also have implemented twitter on my blog as you can see in the top right corner.

One thing about having a very popular site is people try to make a quick buck and target you. It looks like within minutes of the account being deleted someone made this account

http://twitter.com/shoemoneymedia

and made it look like it was me. It is NOT me.

I remember a similar thing happened to Seth Godin not to long ago.

I have bigger fish to fry right now like my wife and our new baby who could be due at any minute but I just wanted to let people know.

Hopefully twitter will return my support requests.