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asthexiancal

WHAT - THE - F***ING - F*** - TWITTER????

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I've got a Twitter account linked to my Google account, that seems to have been created four monthes ago. In fact, I don't even REMEMBER creating one, I don't know if I made a wrong click or what... And since it's automatically linked to my Chrome browser, I just stepped in, to see it has been locked because I broke some Twitter rule. I NEVER EVEN DID ANYTHING ON THIS ACCOUNT IN FOUR MONTHES.

Every day I see at least a couple persons saying their Twitter account has been locked for breaking rules reason, BUT THIS IS JUST INSANE!!!!!!!!!!




Edit - I was creating this journal while answering Twitter email to get an explanation from them, and just before completing it, just got their very fast answer:


"We’re writing to let you know that your account is now unlocked. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

A little background: We have systems that find and remove automated spam Twitter accounts, and it looks like yours was flagged as spam by mistake. This can happen if an account exhibits automated behavior in violation of our rules.

We apologize for the mixup, and hope to see back on Twitter soon."


Just............. W-T-F??????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Netreek
Netreek
11 months ago
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That is Twitter.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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This is extremely concerning. As I just replied them:


The way you told me things, I don't see if the problem lies within your system or my account, as told in those two following sentences:

First sentence
"We have systems that find and remove automated spam Twitter accounts, and it looks like yours was flagged as spam by mistake"
--> how can an inactive account get flagged as spam account, when it's exactly the opposite behavior???????????

Second sentence
"This can happen if an account exhibits automated behavior in violation of our rules."
--> This is a LOT more concerning, this would mean there is something or someone who was actively doing actions with my account without my knowledge/consent. This is where I would require further explanation and maybe logs from you if that did occur. If it's somebody, I'd like to know what did he do, when, and if possible, how he got hold of my account. But if it's something, the problem is extremely serious, and in complete violation of the RGPD principles...........................
Killereye
Killereye
11 months ago
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Edited 11 months ago by Owner
"We have systems that find and remove automated spam Twitter accounts, and it looks like yours was flagged as spam by mistake"

Maybe this is a reference on your inactive account seemingly appearing as created by a bot. Created but not used, and may be used for whenever the time is right. Twatter might have pre-judge such created-but-not-used accounts as possible hacker accounts, created by bot...thus spam account.

"This can happen if an account exhibits automated behavior in violation of our rules."

Same as the first reason. The account was created by a bot (and not by you...lol) but not used yet. Hacker/Spam Account confirmed. No activity on it needed, because the simple act of existing-without-activity/reason IS suspicions activity!

If this is as I wrote above...Twatter is a silly place. Glad to have it avoided for my entire life...just as Tik Tok, and the rest of the major social sites. Tumblr was great before the Great Porn Purge, then it went dead/boring too.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Yes, I was indeed wondering such a thing myself, nice thinking!
Killereye
Killereye
11 months ago
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Wording/Phrasing/wordplay is confusing. One of my own weapons as an Evil Black Dragoness.

But irl...things do get sometimes very confusing, and as an office worker, I tend to do second and third readings of new orders and papers and even consult others to make sure we are thinking the same about it, and that we all understood it. I am trained to analyze corporation stuff like this. Not an expert, just above normal human level really...

And with that said, I am just too speculating here. It may be smarter or dumber...Results what counts here, so get back your account! ~☺
Netreek
Netreek
11 months ago
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There is a company called Massengeschmack. They got banned, because being minor. So the owner of the COMPANY did sent them a copy and letter and everything they wanted to show "No, I am not a minor." and Twitter then said something like "Don't use the information of your parents, that is a violation." Like I said, the owner himself did write to Twitter to open the account again, since he definatly is not a minor. He is like my age. And I saw his company grow from the start, like his first Videos on youtube and how he got his own website and his own production company. This guy is definatly not a minor. But on Twitter, he is in a loop. I think he allready called a lawyer because of Twitters stupidity.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Ha ha ha, that's...... I'm just speechless.
Netreek
Netreek
11 months ago
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Told you. That is Twitter.
Gilbhart
Gilbhart
11 months ago
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That is pretty messed up... O.o'
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Totally!!
Killereye
Killereye
11 months ago
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Edited 11 months ago by Owner
I had the same-ish (and very BAD) experience with my copy of Diablo III.

I left my account on hiatus, because doing the same thing over and over was very repetitive, and I took a half-year long vacation from the game. Half year latter, I try to log in, and my Battle.net account was closed. I asked Blizzard-Activision Support why was it locked, and they answered, that I was inactive for too long, and they have closed my account to protect it. I asked them to open it. Not so simple! They told me to give them ALL my IRL info with phone number and all. I wasn't okay with that, since Blizzard-Activision had trouble keeping personal info secret, and had leaks before. They offered another solution:

I should buy an Authenticatior from them...for even more money and postal address so it can be posted. Yeah, I bought the game, and they close it off from me, so I should give them more money again?

After 2 days of trying to find a solution, one UNORTHODOX solution was found: I had to delete the Blizzard Launcher.exe and then run Diablo III. This forced the game to download the Launcher.exe again, and ask for my pre-set data, and low and behold, I set my security question to my first dog's name. Answered correctly, and my Battle.net account was open FOR FREE.

So yeah, this is why I don't support DRM/Always Online games, as well as games, which are in need of a server, and doesn't have offline mode for me to enjoy forever-on, if I paid for it. One day, the server will be gone, and the game will die/be useless. Diablo II is far superior in this regard. You can mod it, you can cheat, you can play it whenever, even if Blizzard-Activision blows up and most importantly, the full game can be enjoyed OFFLINE, and no automated AI or moderators will close the game off from your usage. Bought it and can enjoy however, whenever I want it.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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You really had some great thinking process here - that's what my aunts say when they are calling me for help, for people like them who are litteraly forced to use the net even for basic administrative tasks, imagine the wall of complexity they are faced with when something goes wrong, the tiniest problem that's nothing to us completely block them!
Killereye
Killereye
11 months ago
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Edited 11 months ago by Owner
Yeah, my parents are like that too. They are living hours on Farcebook, but if they encounter the ugly side of it, they are messaging me what to do. Advert/popup says "Your phone is infected by 127 potentially malicious threats. Get these security risks fixed!" Of course it's a false advert to download unneeded antivirus/spyware. Told them to ignore it. Every week, something new. I hate FB! One idiot gets hacked or a virus/whatever and infects practically everyone else on their buddy list. T_T

And my father encountered his first griefer. Father answered a blog about potentially dangerous migrants and got the not so pretty "Shut your mouth you ***************!" He asked me why did somebody wrote this. I told them "No clue! Just pretend it didn't happen. Block/Bann and move along!" *sigh* Such fun!
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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The more I think about it, the less I understand how we manage to avoid most of those problems. I mean, yes, many of us just grew with it, we have a lot of experience, but it's such a JUNGLE!! With new, unforeseen dangers every week...
The brain is such an amazing thing when it works right~
Killereye
Killereye
11 months ago
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I am just feeling all too warm, when I discover any threat easily and early, and avoid it. Makes me think, that I am smart and not so easy to fool... ~☺
Zippo
Zippo
11 months ago
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yeah I block twatter and its sub domains at the router level, no way im letting that tracking trash into my networks. Same for ticktak, fuckbook, instacrap. no "social media" plz, thx.  :]
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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My personal friends don't understand why I'm not on these either - I am positively surprised to hear you've done this yourself!!   :-D
ScottySkunk
ScottySkunk
11 months ago
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Twitter is filth
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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No hesitation on that question.
MildlyBushy
MildlyBushy
11 months ago
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Everyone: Thats Twitter.
Me: Thats Musk. May he drop dead.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Musk only added his own little layer on what he bought, Twitter was obviously already a waste far before his move
MildlyBushy
MildlyBushy
11 months ago
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Sure but I get good content there daily while on sites like Paheal there's mostly trash drawn by toddlers or repetative AI content created by idiots who can't tag properly.
LordFoxhole
LordFoxhole
11 months ago
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Tu as un compte Twitter ouvert à l'insu de ton plein gré ?
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Je crois me souvenir d'un jour où je me suis trompé de navigateur et n'arrivait pas à ouvrir le compte Twitter que je possède réellement, et qui me sert juste à suivre des personnalités japonaises de l'animation : j'ai alors tenté en vain de l'ouvrir avant de réaliser mon erreur. Mais je ne me souviens en AUCUNE manière en avoir créé un nouveau - je veux dire, quand tu crée un compte quelque part pour quoi que ce soit, normalement tu as des questions à répondre, des informations à donner, non ? Ça m'aurait fait bouger un neurone quand même !!
LordFoxhole
LordFoxhole
11 months ago
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Bah, depuis quelques années, j'ai l'impression que les choses vont de mal en pis sur Internet... Des trucs qui marchaient très bien et simplement deviennent compliqués à utiliser. Et, d'un autre côté, dans les sites, il y a des trucs qui apparaissent, disparaissent, se modifient sans que tu comprennes pourquoi... C'est le cas avec Twitter, et j'essaie même plus de comprendre comment ça fonctionne.
Les administrateurs laissent les robots faire le  ménage et la police, et puis tu t'étonnes qu'on en arrive à des résultats aberrants.
TaiWolfCreations
TaiWolfCreations
11 months ago
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Unfortunately that is just twitter, sorry that happened to yew
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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The worse in that story is that I am now worrying about the behavior of a system I completely don't care about...   o.0
ThaPig
ThaPig
11 months ago
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Yeah, that's probably an automated thing because people create fake accounts just to spam, so if you create an account and don't post, the system could interpret it's one of those. Curiously it has not happened to me, who created a Twitter account years ago, and stopped using it after seeing how much crap I kept getting.
 ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )  
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Perhaps because you did use it at some point in the beginning, contrary to what happened to me here? All this is WEIRD anyway, and the problem is, their communication is even weirder!
ThaPig
ThaPig
11 months ago
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Most probably both the cause of the problem and their message apologizing for it were entirely automated things that involved no human intervention.
( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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I believe indeed they won't make a personalized answer to every of their probably 1.000+ (10.000+?) emails they receive each day...........
Rana
Rana
11 months ago
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Another "Twitter is randomly banning accounts" bug? Or not a bug and its just Twitter being a bitch once again?

Well, these days you cant expect less from Twitter...
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Yes and yes and yes I'd say.............
Rana
Rana
11 months ago
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Classic...
Alondro77
Alondro77
11 months ago
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In 2032, after the nuclear war, the 12 survivors will all gather around their feeble flickering fire in the frigid cold and unanimously agree that social media was a terrible mistake.

;D
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Unleashing both human stupidity and AI control at the same time, when just one of these is enough to bring down entire civilizations, is certainly an.... "Interesting experience".
Alondro77
Alondro77
10 months, 4 weeks ago
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"May you live in interesting times".... the most dreaded curse ever uttered.  ;D
ArionEquus
ArionEquus
11 months ago
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Honestly... this is sorta normal. Youtube/google, pretty much anyone who has ever attempted to introduce automated moderation will have a LOT of false flags until they turn down the system to a reasonable level.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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Edited 11 months ago by Owner
I agree with that, no system is perfect from the beginning. However, Twitter is certainly not a new system, so normally with years and years of experience the programs are upgraded to be better with each problem encountered, right? Don't tell me I am the VERY FIRST, or even just the tenth user to whom such a thing happened..................
PandaMouse
PandaMouse
11 months ago
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This is a really Jank year! ^v^ What's next? Heeehe! Thank goodness things got fix fast! ^v^
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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I was indeed extremely surprised by their almost immediate answer. Surprised to the point of being suspicious if my case has really been reviewed by an actual human.......
LOL   when an answer takes days to come the customers are unhappy, and when it comes immediatly they are too!!!   X-D
Waccoon
Waccoon
11 months ago
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Everything is fully automated and uses "machine learning" to make up the rules as it goes.  Most of these companies have no idea how their own systems work.  Even the appeals process is fully automated, so no person was involved in unlocking your account.

People think I'm crazy for not using Twitter, Discord, owning a smartphone, never using 2FA...

I spent almost 30 years of my life programming, and now I don't even want to touch a computer anymore.  I hate what this industry has becomes, and it's why I only hang out on sites like Inkbunny.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
11 months ago
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HA!! You just confirmed what I told Pandafox above........

So, you are the second person telling me on this journal he's not using any social media (and it goes even further in your case I see - I too don't have any of those modern phones), I'm impressed... And feel less alone   LOL  
evoyager
evoyager
11 months ago
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I avoid Twitter like it's a plague. Ignore Instagram despite the fact that I hear is not so bad I simply have no reason to create or use Instagram accounts. For Facebook I have no interest. Honestly sites like ink bunny and F A are probably the closest I get to dealing with social media. Oh and you too I'm on YouTube at least 30 hours a week mostly listening to audiobooks and podcast
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Youtube is indeed one of the sites I check the most for scientific shows~
rp
rp
11 months ago
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Not knowing anything about twitter I guess new accounts not used at all for months may be locked for possibility of being part of spammer throwaway account stock just by simple rule. And it's likely easier to automatically unlock 100 accounts as owners complain than clean up the fallout from one actual spam account.
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Edited 10 months, 4 weeks ago by Owner
Quite logical when put that way~
fripck
fripck
8 months ago
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That’s elongated frick musk for you and us…
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
8 months ago
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Yes...
fripck
fripck
8 months ago
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He ruins everything and wants more money, even though he’s already fricking rich!!!!
asthexiancal
asthexiancal
8 months ago
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Well you know, I'm not sure here, it's vbecause he is so rich that I have that idea Twitter is his little toy, his experiment corner and he is going to test some of his ideas without any concern about profit or rentability or any economic view whatsoever, which I think is even more concerning, not just about the future of twitter, but about his own real goals............
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