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Tell HN: How to get your Twitter account fubar
Six months ago, I decided to rename my business and I got the twitter account. Then, finally this past week, everything was good to go, and I updated the photos for profile/icon. For this account's first follower, I decided to follow it from my personal account. That was a mistake, apparently.
Within seconds, my personal account was locked and kicked out of Twitter ads (according to the emails I received). This makes no logical sense to me, but here we are.
So, apparently, the way to screw up a twitter account is simple: follow a dormant account.
FWIW, the dormant account was managed by my phone (logged into my personal and this account), but I did the following from my computer, which wasn't logged into both accounts (ever).
- PaulWaldman 4y agoSo your business account as locked? If so, did anything happen to your personal account? Could there have been any prior activity on your personal account, aside from being dormat, that could cause this? What's the recourse?
- Herbstluft 4y agoTwitter is weird like that sometimes (often?). My account was created ~2009, I read a lot, but don't post very often. A while ago between 15 and 20 shady accounts started following me. Twitter immediately froze my account before I cold even block these obvious bots. I opened a support ticket and received my answer in a suspiciously short amount of time, and my account was reactivated.
- timonoko 4y agoTwo reasons: "Learn to drive" and "Cockroach". Both were translation error from Finnish. European moderators are mostly Russians living in Malta(etc) and only with rudimentary knowledge of Finnish and other small language. First one was the "Learn to Code"-problem, but too complex to explain. And other one was "Russakka". Finnish word for "Cockroach" stems from the word Russian, but that is how it is, for obvious reasons. No fault of mine.