New twitter user confused

Maybe someone here can help me. I opened a Twitter account last night and started following some people. In the course of the evening, I replied to about 5 tweets from other people, using the “Reply” button. Then Twitter said they were suspending my account for abuse of “Reply!” I don’t understand this. I thought people replied to other people’s tweets all the time. I thought that was what the @ thing was about.

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