On June 12, X (formerly Twitter) experienced a large-scale account suspension incident, affecting many key opinion leaders (KOLs) and official accounts in the cryptocurrency field. This action has drawn widespread attention from the community, with many active accounts in both Chinese and English circles being affected, including the official account of GMGN, its founder, Sha Polu Lang, Wang Xiao Er, Wushi, ElizaOS team, etc.

Many users initially thought the event was only targeting GMGN. Currently, the suspended accounts are gradually submitting appeals, but the platform has not provided a clear explanation, and the community discussion is still ongoing.

Suspended accounts erupted in bulk, not just the GMGN system

GMGN co-founder Haze responded through the Telegram channel today, stating that they have not yet received an official explanation for the account suspension. The team is communicating with X platform to appeal and strive for the prompt restoration of the accounts. This incident is not the first time the platform has carried out such cleaning actions, but the sudden occurrence without any clear reason has raised doubts among many KOLs about the platform's content moderation mechanism.

Among the suspended accounts, there are multiple well-known names in the Chinese community, including:

• Official account of GMGN @gmgnai and its founder Jige @haze0x


• Sha Polu Lang @Wolfy_XBT


• Wang Xiao Er @brc20niubi


• Wushi @0xCryptoWizard


• gake @Ga__ke

At the same time, similar situations also occurred in the English-speaking community. The official account of the Meme project ElizaOS @elizaOS and its founder @shawmakesmagic were frozen yesterday, and some accounts associated with TRUMP wallets were also temporarily suspended and then restored.

Although GMGN was the first to be noticed, the affected accounts are not limited to one project system. KOL Kuai Dong (@_FORAB) said that from the account behavior, these KOLs generally have several common characteristics:

• Most have been actively involved in AI Agent, Meme-related topics recently


• Frequently mentioned or interacted with keywords such as ai16z, ElizaOS


• Have interaction records with GMGN team members or topics


• Some accounts have seen a sharp increase in followers recently, high content posting density, and are suspected to be identified by the system as manipulative dissemination

This indicates that the platform's suspension behavior this time is more likely based on behavioral pattern identification in bulk, rather than targeting specific teams or users in a particular language region.

Speculation and Misunderstandings in the Public Discourse: Panic, Business Warfare, or Even "Being Taken Down"

This incident quickly triggered panic in the Chinese community. Some even claimed on Telegram and WeChat groups that "the project team was taken down in Shenzhen" and attributed the event to some offline law enforcement action.

However, logically speaking, these claims basically do not hold up. As an American company, X's risk control mechanism relies on the platform's own content algorithms and signal models, and there is no direct information channel with local law enforcement agencies in China. Suspension is essentially a platform-side action, not caused by external intervention. Some people speculate it is a business warfare initiated by competitors, triggering X's risk control mechanism through concentrated reporting to achieve competitive purposes. This claim cannot be verified for now. There is even a belief that this incident is related to a political Meme implying "Trump and Musk," and some suspended accounts had posted or forwarded this image.

This claim seems to have a certain logical chain, but after careful observation, it can be found that a considerable number of suspended accounts did not post this Meme, and small accounts that posted similar content but had low activity were mostly not processed, while other large numbers of accounts sharing political Meme were not affected. Therefore, attributing the suspension to a single image or specific content obviously lacks explanatory power. The greater possibility is that this Meme happened to appear among a batch of accounts monitored by the system, but it is not the main cause.

In fact, similar situations occurred during the NFT peak period. In 2021, many well-known cryptocurrency analysts, traders, and KOLs with tens of thousands or even millions of followers had their accounts suddenly suspended without prior warning, including PlanB (@100trillionUSD), Willy Woo (@woonomic), @TheCryptoDog, @woj.eth, etc. Some accounts were permanently banned, but many were restored after causing significant reactions in the community.

What to Do If Your Account Is Suspended?

According to Kuai Dong's experience, there have been similar cases before, where many institutional and media accounts were suspended at the same time, but later were gradually restored. So I will share the experience from that time.

Path One: Appeal. Directly submit an appeal, inform them that because they are in mainland China, they often need a proxy to access Twitter, and with many colleagues operating, IP addresses change frequently, so explain clearly in the appeal.

Path Two: Contact Regional Manager. For some countries and regions, such as the United States and Japan, where Twitter has a high market share, there are usually dedicated business and advertising managers. According to friends who have gone through this channel, they can help investigate the reason and expedite the approval of the appeal, but this channel is only applicable to corporate accounts, not personal ones. For regions without a manager, there are usually local 4A advertising companies that act as agents for Twitter, which can also help clients contact them.

Path Three: Wait for Natural Restoration. Some, like the media PANews, failed to get results through the above paths multiple times, but after a year, they were miraculously unblocked.

There are countless examples like this, usually ranging from 3 months to 1 year, but during this period, creating small accounts may also result in continued suspension.

How Content Creators Can Protect Themselves

In the absence of official statements, how can creators and project teams protect themselves? Currently, there are some practical avoidance suggestions circulating in the industry:

• Avoid repeatedly posting contract addresses, transaction links within a short period

Especially new projects, un-audited contracts, and Meme assets with strong hype, are prone to trigger the risk control system.

• Do not post content highly overlapping with hot tags in a flood manner

Such as continuously mentioning keywords like "AI Agent", "CA", "airdrop", "meme season", which may be identified as manipulative behavior.

• Reduce concentrated interactions with a single account or project

Including centralized forwarding, commenting, and liking a KOL's tweets. This kind of "group coordination" behavior is considered a high-risk model in X's new algorithm.

For most content creators, X platform remains one of the most important traffic sources. However, under the AI-driven content review mechanism, some previously feasible "high-frequency distribution" strategies have now become high-risk behaviors.

Author: ChandlerZ, Foresight News