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A few months ago I created an account for a website I have, followed a few accounts, tweeted once and was then banned for literally no reason. All of this happe
by moralestapia 5y ago
A few months ago I created an account for a website I have, followed a few accounts, tweeted once and was then banned for literally no reason. All of this happened in less than 24h.
After that, I try to avoid Twitter when possible.
It's also a cesspool of entitled pseudo-intellectuals (both left and right leaning), so I don't miss it much, honestly.
- motohagiography 5y agoMy view is always a bit alien, but I get the sense if you follow the wrong person out of curiosity you get banned, which takes on weird reputation risk in itself. It seems like a vice anyway. A strange game, the only way to win is to be like everyone else.
- cronix 5y agoI signed up and was immediately banned after following 3 different accounts in fairly rapid succession. I had already been "following" these accounts for some time by directly going to their twitter pages on the website and had them bookmarked, so I just went to each person directly from the bookmarks and hit "follow." This is apparently "Unusual activity." In order to prove I wasn't a bot and continue to use their service, they wanted my phone number (I signed up through the website and don't want the app on my phone). I really don't care about tweeting myself and it was just for the convenience factor of having the accounts all in a single place without having to go to different bookmarks each time, so it's not a big deal to not have an account. It's all publicly available, although they're trying to make it harder to navigate twitter unless you have an account and signed in.
- handrous 5y agoTwitter never doesn't decide it needs your phone number after a short while. Nothing you did or didn't do made that happen. At most you sped it up a couple days.