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Astronomer SHOCKINGLY banned on Twitter for ‘intimate’ pic of meteor!
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Astronomer SHOCKINGLY banned on Twitter for ‘intimate’ pic of meteor!

[ad_1] Mary McIntyre was locked out of her Twitter account for three months after she posted a video of a meteor passing through. The Elon Musk era on Twitter has been a rollercoaster ride. From employee layoffs to banning accounts that were impersonating Musk himself and other famous personalities, chaos has become the new normalcy at the microblogging social media platform. But even before Musk took over, Twitter had its fair share of account handling mismanagement. Recently, one of the biggest cases of wrongful banning of an account was seen for Mary McIntyre, a British astronomer. Roughly three months ago, one of her tweets was flagged for ‘intimate content', a warning usually reserved for pornographic or sexually inappropriate content. But what she shared was a video of a meteor ...