EskomSePush app reinstated after being removed from the Google Play Store
Planning your day around loadshedding just got a little more difficult with Google suspending the EskomSePush app.
On Sunday, co-founder of the popular load shedding app, Herman Maritz, tweeted a screenshot of a message from Google. The message stated that the notification app EskomSePush (ESP) has been pulled from the Google Play Store.
The suspension happened a month after the app had garnered more than 2.2-million users.
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When asked about the reason for the suspension by a Twitter user, Maritz mentioned that Google’s initial suspension email was quite vague.
"We have been getting a few rejections about User Generated Content. But we have everything in place according to policies: banned words, community reporting, moderators. Today they claim "Misleading Claims" no information given," he explains.
MyBroadband reported that, according to Google, while the app does have the ability to flag inappropriate users in the app, there was no way to report objectionable content and take action against this when needed. In addition, Google also indicated that EskomSePush had supposedly not met its COVID-19 app policies.
By midday, on Monday, the updated ESP app was reinstated on the Google Play Store. Android users can download the app from this link.
The @EskomSePush app is back on the Playstore!
— Herman Maritz (@hermaritz) March 15, 2021
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*Cover image courtesy of Twitter.