Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account • Hacker News Board

Spare_account wrote: post #16

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13711918852686725... > What's possible is a Twitter staffer tried to block a street address, but the postal syntax acted as an escape sequence, or the original was multi-line and they only pasted the city. What postal syntax in the US looks like an escape sequence?

I meant separator token, sorry.

Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by _Microft » Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 8:28 PM UTC

Traster wrote: post #29

I love the sheer number of hacker news commenters saying “Well I tried it, seems to work”. At what level do you guys go “I’m just going to assume those 10 other guys aren’t lying”

I wonder if that happens every time. ;)

https://xkcd.com/242/

Edit: oh noes, folks - this was an innocuous compliment on your adventurousness! :)

Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by mgamache » Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 8:29 PM UTC

"We've temporarily limited some of your account features" Jesus how stupid...

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Post by beckingz » Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 8:29 PM UTC

yokoprime wrote: post #24

Oh boy, the dumpster fire that just keeps on giving. I really hope Twitter does have audit trail on everyone being locked by this so they easily can unlock everyone again

And now we'll have the suspension on our record so future suspensions will be more severe.

Automated moderation in action!

Re: Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

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Post by hyperpape » Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

Reminded of Rachel’s post about requiring confirmation for exceptionally destructive actions (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/26/num/).