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By Aliya Kuykendall, The Stream, April 1, 2019
Unplannedhad a good — in fact, surprisingly successful — first weekend. The movie shows the reality of abortion as it tells the true story of Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life advocate. The pro-life movie made 6.1 million in box office sales this weekend. That’s more than double what movie industry forecasters were projecting.
Unplanned tweeted that they’re seeing theaters sell out. What’s more, they’re planning to add 700 new theaters this week.
Opening weekend came with some headache too, as Unplanned saw its official Twitter account suspended, then reinstated after an outcry. Twitter notified @UnplannedMovie that it would take about an hour for their follower numbers to repopulate.
But “an hour or so” wasn’t the case. Users reported trouble following the account. By Monday morning Abby Johnson tweeted that she couldn’t follow her own movie.
Many users had reported the same thing: As soon as they refreshed the page, their following status was back to not following. Some posted videos of this happening.
By Monday afternoon it seems like everything is back to the way it should be on the Unplanned account. Except that it still doesn’t have a blue verified check mark. The Unplanned account made a chant (that rhymes) to protest:
Twitter’s Response
So what’s the official Twitter explanation for all of this?
A Twitter spokesperson told the Daily Dot (with a straight face) the suspension “wasn’t directly about this account. When an account violates the Twitter Rules, the system looks for linked accounts to mitigate things like ban evasion. In this case, the account was mistakenly caught in our automated systems for ban evasion.”
The spokesperson declined to explain what that other account was, which Unplanned was mistakenly connected with.
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Interestingly, along with all the trouble with the account’s suspension and followers, it seems Twitter has decided the Unplannedbanner, once shared, constitutes media that “may be sensitive” and has to be covered up unless you click “view.” Here’s a couple screenshots of such a tweet:
Regardless of how the movie account is faring on Twitter, we can rejoice that it’s doing well in box offices, and impacting hearts with the reality of abortion and the truths of transformation and forgiveness.
Oh, and turns out the account is doing pretty well on Twitter now too:
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Aliya is a Staff Writer and Proofreader for The Stream.
Before joining The Stream, Aliya wrote as an intern for her local city newspaper and was an editor of her student newspaper. In her free time, Aliya enjoys connecting with friends, deep conversations, cooking up something healthy and learning something new. If you know something about the Bible; the good, true and beautiful; justice or health, watch out: she’s insatiably curious.