The Twitter accounts of several prominent figures in the cryptocurrency community were suspended early on Wednesday.

• CoinDesk became aware, at around 4:44 UTC (11:44 p.m. ET), that accounts such as @thecryptodog, @woonomic, @KoroushAK and @100trillionusd had been suspended.
• The accounts are popular within the crypto community, garnering millions of followers for their bitcoin and other crypto-related trading ideas.
• "Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules," was the only reason given initially by the social media giant.
• After the publication of this report, Willy Woo (@woonomic) tweeted that his account had been reinstated after roughly six hours.
• In a message from Twitter included in the tweet, the reasons for the suspension were attributed to automated systems that had flagged his account as spam "by mistake."

• Some of the other suspended accounts were reinstated by 09:54 UTC.
• Social media platforms broadly have often suspended or banned crypto-related accounts, sometimes for seemingly no clear reason.
• Last month, CoinDesk's YouTube account was briefly suspended. While the account was restored within a day, CoinDesk still has no explanation for the suspension.
• CoinDesk attempted to contact Twitter to determine a reason for the suspensions but was not able to receive a response by press time.

UPDATE (09:43 UTC, March 10, 2021): Added new tweet from Willy Woo containing more recent details on the suspensions.

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