Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
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Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
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Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#2I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#3I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
Utter amateur level, the whole 'give us more of your information because we fucked up' puts it in a different class altogether.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#4I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
Google did this to me when I was signing up for a GSuite account. Decided I wouldn't risk my business with them then.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#5I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
They are likely using some fuzzy logic to detect people evading bans by creating multiple accounts. Could be some combination of IP address, OS, browser fingerprinting, etc.
This approach inevitably results in some amount of false positives, but nobody cares since the users aren't the paying customers.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#6I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
I think it means they want you to add your phone number to your account.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#7I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
They lock your account until you give them a valid phone number, it's probably nothing you did just they use 'dark patterns' to get your data. Everyone's probably better using Mastodon or something.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#8I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
They want your phone number. It's a dark pattern to make you communicate your personal information.
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#9I am sort of baffled by all the ink being spilt about Twitter. I still find it jarring that anyone reports on “tweets,” and that there is even a process to ‘appeal’ a decision made ‘about a tweet.’
Anyway, meta-commentary aside, this blog post is something of a mystery. I don’t know whether the author of the post actually wrote the tweet in question and is somehow trying to get back onto Twitter, or if his account was compromised despite him saying it wasn’t… I just don’t know what to make of all of this. Can anyone clarify? Any insights?
Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
#10> Unfortunately, since my account is now blocked I can’t make noise about this on Twitter, which is probably the only place where making such noise would be effective.
This is dangerously true, unfortunately. Were there ever adequate channels of recourse for upstanding citizens which we've let atrophy in the last two decades? Or has Twitter been an unprecedented innovation in elevating plebeian voices? Or are have both tweeted and prior petitions also been impotent?