Twitter has suspended me

April 3, 2015:  I'm out of Twitmo!  Thanks to many people for their support!!


Update: Twitter told Anthony Watts that my suspension was "probably an oversight".  Since the suspension, I've received no communication from Twitter other than an automatic "we've received your appeal" email two days ago.

I think my suspension was a result of warmists abusing Twitter's "report abuse" function.  I suspect that at least one of these people knows more specifics about my case: Gavin Schmidt, Katharine Hayhoe, Michael Mann.

On March 22, After I posted this graph, @ClimateOfGavin called it "crap".  



I then posted @KHayhoe's "mother of all hockey sticks" below, and asked if it was "crap".  




Today, April 1, Twitter informed me that my account was "locked" until I deleted this tweet:


Twitter then unlocked my account.  After I posted the "Delete tweet" screen shot above, I was suspended.
If calling a graph "crap" is grounds for suspension, why isn't @ClimateofGavin suspended?
Updates: Mark Steyn asks a good question here:

Iowahawk nailed it here, in reference to warmists trying to shut down Steve Goddard:

Here's Mann threatening in advance to report Twitter users who ask questions he doesn't like:

Here's Mann orchestrating "report abuse" for an Amazon review that he didn't like: 
Abusive censorship on Twitter – same word used by Gavin Schmidt gets commenter banned | Watts Up With That?
Not being able to win arguments on merits, a complaint was apparently made to ban/suspend Tom Nelson from Twitter for using the very same description of a graph that climate scientist Gavin Schmidt made.
Small Dead Animals linked to this post here.

Iowahawk called for my reinstatement, but with an unfortunate typo in my twitter handle (it's @taN123, not @tam123).

April 2, 2015: Current lead story on Twitchy: Mark Steyn wants to know why Twitter ‘suspended another climate dissident’

Above story linked to in a tweet from Michelle Malkin (800k followers):

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