Dancing with Twitter: Just One Warning Not Short of a Locked Account
Just One Warning Not Short of a Locked Account
Publication date: 2022-03-27
Dear Readers,
I made a weeee mistake with Twitter. I decided to change my date of birth, because why not? Now, you already know what's going to happen, don't you? How about "today" as the date of birth? … Noooooooo, dont do it!!!! ….
Twitter informs me "Invalid date". Fair enough. How about yesterday? No problem! Until 5 seconds later when I get the "Your account is locked due to age restrictions ... 13 years old ...".
What? No warning? Who hired these programmers?
The upshot is that either I provide twitter with an image of some valid national identity, "Papers please!", or my previous Twitter account @yesxorno can just sit in limbo forever.
On principle, no papers for you, Twitter! So, start afresh we do with, OMG, can you guess it?
@yesxorno1
Really, I just can't be f*cked dancing with these idiots. I mean its not like this "13 years of age" policy is new. And no damn warning? How many thousands of times has this happened and they haven't put in a warning:
Changing your date of birth to this value will put your age under 13 years and the account will be instantly locked. Are you sure you wish to do this?
My dear, precious 18 followers, you are now following a permanently in limbo account. So, junk that, and lets have fun with adding a '1' and see how that goes. The graphic above you will recognize as my old Twitter handle’s profile. I’m glad I saved the images so that I could at least provide some graphical continuity.
I don't know who is the greater idiot, me or Twitster?
PS: The article for tomorrow, as announced, will come out, rain or shine. I've just a few hours of proof reading to do :-D
Secondly, I'm really happy to see that the Censorship article has gained quite some traction. I'll update it to indicate the new twitter handle, but I can't be arsed updating the preceding hundred or so to make the same edit. They shall stand to remind me of my folly.
If you haven’t started laughing yet, let it rip!
Sources
My own embarassment.
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