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Civil Liberties

Twitter Reinstates Anonymous Twitter Account

Was suspended after posting an email address

Reason Staff | 12.19.2012 2:20 PM

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A bit before noon EDT today, Twitter suspended the account @YourAnonNews, the largest Anonymous account with nearly 800,000 followers. A recently established back-up account, @YANBackup, tweeted updates until the account was reinstated about an hour later, reborn into the world with a signature tweet:

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