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- Twitter is warning users against to fall for a viral joke that causes the accounts of victims to be blocked.
- The joke promises users that changing the year of birth of their account in 2007 will reveal a special and more colorful version of the Twitter feed.
- Instead, this change marks the user as being under the age of 13 and automatically locks his account until he reaches his "majority".
A viral joke on Twitter that promises users a "diet has resulted in blocking some victims of their accounts."
Some Twitter users are spreading the lie that modifying their birthday in their profile will open a more colorful version of the Twitter feed, but there is a small problem: the so-called Easter egg does not work and those who fall under it find themselves stuck on their Twitter account.
It seems that the farce virale comes from a tweet posted Monday night which has since gained nearly 12,000 retweets and nearly 20,000 tastes.
If you change your birth year in 2007, your Twitter feed will be colorful – 44 (@s_rxii) Mar 25, 2019
Unfortunately, there is no colorful Twitter feed, instead, these instructions will exclude you from your account By changing your birth year in 2007, you signal ez to Twitter that you are under 13, the age required to create a Twitter account, in accordance with the terms of service of the platform .
If a user does not respect the age requirements of Twitter, Twitter locks the account. It is then impossible to access the account until the user "has reached its majority", so to speak.
It's unclear how many people have fallen into the trap, but it seems to be enough for Twitter to warn users of the hoax.
"We noticed a joke that was trying to make people change the anniversary of their Twitter profile in 2007 to unlock new colors," said Twitter support released Tuesday after midday . "Do not do that, you're going to be locked out because you're under 13 years old."
We noticed a joke that was trying to get people to tweet their Twitter birthday in their profile in 2007 to unlock new colors. Please do not do this. You will be locked out if you are under 13 years old.
– Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 26, 2019
If you search on " 2007 birthday " on Twitter, it is obvious that many people seem to have been stuck on their accounts. And people are really dissatisfied.
So, basically, I fell into one of those "if you change your Twitter birthday in 2007, you'll get nice color schemes and themes".
Now, I'm too young to be on the app and I have to wait to be 13 years old before I can use my og account. – Peter Baeless Reincarnate (@plsankosi) March 26, 2019
"If people lose access to their account, they can appeal by logging in and following the prompts to enter an incorrect birthday. Our team will badist you, "A Twitter representative told Business Insider
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