Twitter 'permanently suspended' Republican Senate candidate and retired Army Capt. Sam Brown then reversed decision hours later: Republican Senate candidate and Purple Heart recipient, Capt. Sam Brown, said Twitter "permanently suspended" his account. He appealed the decision and Fox News reported that "several hours later" the account was restored. Twitter told Brown in an email that his account had been suspended in error and explained that it has "systems that find and remove multiple automated spam accounts in bulk, and [Brown's] was flagged as spam by mistake," according to Fox News.