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Twitter Troubles in North Cornwall

We are currently locked out of the Davidstow.info Twitter account. It seems as though one of Twitter’s illustrious algorithms has taken exception to a video I first uploaded yesterday evening.

Here it is on YouTube, with an added bonus music track:

This was the notification we received via our now “locked” Twitter account:

I didn’t delete the Tweet, because it didn’t violate any of “the Rules“!

Twitter also notified me that the account was locked via email. After the account was eventually unlocked I replied asking Twitter Support to provide an explanation for the inexplicable behaviour of their automated rule violation detection system:

Re: Case# 0288115441: Your account is suspended or locked [ ref:_00DA0K0A8._5004w2VeUf9:ref ]

Good morning (UTC),

Please can you explain what alleged “violations of the Twitter Rules” caused the problem in the first place? We have no desire to innocently post another wholly harmless video of the local landscape which nonetheless seems to fall foul of some “rule” that isn’t amongst the list on your web site!

Your initial notification wasn’t very helpful, to say the least:

Specifically for what?

Best wishes,

Jim Hunt

Watch this space!



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Bodyboarding A Big Swell at Widemouth Bay

A big swell was forecast to arrive on the coast of North Cornwall last weekend:

Discretion is the better part of valour, especially at our advanced age. Hence we merely admired it from afar on Friday evening:

https://twitter.com/jim_hunt/status/1446814206628663301

The waves were significantly smaller on Saturday, so the Davidstow.info editor-in-chief and artist-in-residence packed our gear into Lisa, our Nissan Leaf electric vehicle, and headed for Widemouth Bay:

https://twitter.com/jim_hunt/status/1447177464556494850

We even managed to record some moving pictures of the scene at the seaside, as did Dave at Watergate Bay!

P.S. We also managed to record some video footage whilst immersed in the Atlantic Ocean. In episode one your intrepid editor inadvertently found himself in the midst of a sizeable closeout, and managed to breathe in some seawater of hopefully unadulterated quality:

Whereas in episode two: