re: Anybody know why the Auburn Football Twitter account is suspended?

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Auburn is among several Power 5 football programs to have its Twitter account suspended this week for breaking the social media network's terms of service.

The Tigers' account, with nearly 350,000 followers, was suspended Monday. The reasoning? Those ever-popular hype videos utilizing music from popular artists of the day.

An Auburn spokesperson confirmed there were a "few prior posts that contained copyrighted music." Auburn is working to clear up the issue so that it may resume tweeting to fans on the popular social media platform.

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Auburn has a team of employees developing content for its social media platforms on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook, but it's believed only the football program's Twitter account has ever been frozen due to a copyright claim. 

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Twitter's copyright policy is below:

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Twitter responds to copyright complaints submitted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Section 512 of the DMCA outlines the statutory requirements necessary for formally reporting copyright infringement, as well as providing instructions on how an affected party can appeal a removal by submitting a compliant counter-notice.

Twitter will respond to reports of alleged copyright infringement, such as allegations concerning the unauthorized use of a copyrighted image as a profile or header photo, allegations concerning the unauthorized use of a copyrighted video or image uploaded through our media hosting services, or Tweets containing links to allegedly infringing materials. Note that not all unauthorized uses of copyrighted materials are infringements (see our  fair use article for more information).

If you are concerned about the use of your brand or entity’s name, please review  Twitter's trademark policy. If you are concerned about a parody, newsfeed, commentary, or fan account, please see the relevant policy  here. These are generally not copyright issues.

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