[TLDR: this post recaps a Twitter account suspension that ForexGPT is appealing as it was a false-positive flag of some sort that we are actively disputing with X. No customers are affected, and it doesn’t affect any ForexGPT service either.We suspect the account will be reinstated within 24-48 hours but sharing this just in case for transparency. ]
On March 9th I was logged into Twitter, where I have the ability to easily switch between either my personal account @shatzakis or my business account for @forexgptai. I happened to be logged into the @forexgptai account when I came across a post from @elon musk about the ability to tag @grok in public comments on posts to see how the AI would reply. Excited over the prospect of trying it out, I commented asking @grok to elaborate on the post @elon made. It replied almost instantly with an explanation, and I was able to see that response in real-time pretty cool.
This reminded me of a time when a few years ago I experimented with the Claude AI plugin using Slack, but inadvertently created an infinite loop where the AI bot would tag itself in a comment, causing itself to reply to the tagged comment in a new tagged comment (creating hundreds of comments in an unstoppable manner). It was not a fun exercise and caused some headaches for others. This made me wonder if @grok ever encountered that, and with no malice intent, I asked out of genuine curiosity:
if you mentioned yourself with the @ symbol, would that cause an infinite loop and did anyone cause that during testing internally?”
I didn’t get a second reply and thought to myself how this could mean that either a) grok only replies once or b) grok knows better than to create an infinite loop. So I headed to bed… didn’t think anything of it.
I woke up the next morning to an email from Twitter that my @forexgptai account has been suspended for allegedly violating rules against “inauthentic behaviour.”
I was very frustrated as I didn’t know what this means or how it could have come about, other than to think that my otherwise curious question to Grok could have been misinterpreted as malicious? To make matters worse, X was the victim of a DDoS attack that same morning, so did my Tweet get caught in their wave of related flags?
I immediately submitted an appeal. Then I started thinking deeper, perhaps it was something else, did someone else falsely accuse or report my account?
Or was the account compromised somehow? While I don’t have any proof of either of those scenarios, I submitted a second appeal adding additional informational context, and also attesting that all posts made by @forexgptai on X were not automated and I don’t use any bots or scripts or engagement automation, nor is it impersonating any other business or acting inauthentic!!!
I’m left perplexed and asking again, why was the account suspended??
In recent weeks I have noticed another company using the ForexGPT brand, albeit with a space in the middle, but this is like comparing Microsoft to Micro Soft, and while I have not taken any legal action yet against them, I wondered whether they had reported us as impersonating them?
This led to a third appeal that I submitted to X over the suspension, because I created ForexGPT in 2023 and it was one of the first plugins for forex on the ChatGPT plugin store, before being superseded by the GPT store, and our fully launched SaaS application. In the original publication of the plugin, it was published as ForexGPT, and then I renamed it to Forex Rates to comply with ChatGPT’s rules for using the GPT acronym, and then retained ForexGPT as the company brand, and renamed the plugin back to ForexGPT too. This is not the first time ForexGPT has been impersonated; see this post.
Why am I sharing all this? I am writing this post partly to document this event and also to let everyone know why the ForexGPT Twitter account is suspended, as I await the appeal process to reinstate the account, while sharing all the facts here in full transparency. You can see the ForexGPT Twitter account below, it had less than 50 hand written posts, and has NEVER acted inauthentically or violate any such rules against “inauthentic behaviour” and hope that the grok comment didn’t fall under that scope, and if it did, I apologized to Twitter/X, although am still unsure as to what the reason is for all this and just trying to be proactive about it, just as I have always been when proactively reporting impersonators and others who I’ve helped Twitter swiftly ban and suspend, but never for unjustly reasons.
Once the account is reinstated, this link should work: https://twitter.com/forexgptai
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