Texas Football Gets Suspended — By Twitter?
Texas Football Gets Suspended — By Twitter?
Tuesday morning, with National Signing Day just one day away, Twitter has suspended the Texas Football account.
Less than 24 hours until National Signing Day, the Texas football program had a crisis situation on its hands: Its Twitter account was — gasp — suspended.
How would the Longhorns tweet out cool graphics of Joshua Moore and Keondre Coburn? Would Moore and Coburn flip to programs who could tweet out cool graphics?
If a prospect signs and his school can’t tweet it, did it ever really happen?
Notable suspensions in 2017 for @TexasFootball:
— Danny Davis (@aasdanny) February 6, 2018
* CB Holton Hill
* WR Lil'Jordan Humphrey
* RB Toneil Carter
* TE Reese Leitao
Notable suspensions in 2018 for @TexasFootball:
* Twitter#HookEm
Free @TexasFootball!
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) February 6, 2018
More importantly, why did @TexasFootball get put in timeout?
According to Twitter, there are three reasons for account suspensions:
1. Spam
2. Account security at risk
3. Abusive Tweets or behavior
Was it spam? Was it abusive behavior? Depending on the source, a case could be made for each, which leads us to — dun, dun, dun — Texas A&M and Oklahoma: suspects No. 1 and 1A.
Did the Aggies hack the account, thus prompting the suspension? Has the Red River Rivalry escalated to cyber warfare? Was it Johnny Manziel? Was it Baker Mayfield?
Was it Johnny Manziel and Baker Mayfield?
Let's investigate.
Manziel, it seems, recently joined TexasAgs.com as a registered user. That puts him on the device needed to commit the crime during the time frame in which the crime was committed — and under the influence of an extremist group with a demonstrated distaste for the University of Texas.
My pleasure. See you guys Saturday https://t.co/9mSTYYgePw
— Johnny Manziel (@JManziel2) February 6, 2018
"My pleasure," Johnny? What exactly does that mean?
And what about Mayfield?
Well, the Heisman Trophy winner has been Zero Dark Thirty-6 for several days now. Very suspicious if you ask me. And then there's this:
#MMO pic.twitter.com/CbjPpdMzkU
— Baker Mayfield (@baker_mayfield6) February 2, 2018
Mayfield was seen with Justin Timberlake on Feb. 2, just days before the "Man of the Woods" used technology to bring Prince back from the afterlife to perform a duet during the Super Bowl. If Timberlake can do that, don't you think he can show Mayfield how to hack a Twitter account?
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we’ve successfully worked this case. When in doubt, blame Manziel and Mayfield. They’re obviously responsible for this.
UPDATE: The Longhorns are back. Nice try, Johnny. Good job, good effort, Baker.