Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by saladgnu054 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:14AM
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That is one explanation, but the explanation I tend to believe is another: Twitter quickly bans new accounts to force you to "prove your identity" by adding a phone number.
Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by m00x on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:48PM
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It is a very good way to confirm that you're in fact a person though.
Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by hertzrat on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:40PM
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Obviously, but it doesn’t help me when support has a “we will never speak with you” policy
Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by antiterra on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:34PM
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You’ll probably find that these kind of systems don’t have just a single ‘New Bot Account’ detector, but a tangle of multiple subsystems that automatically temp-lock accounts based on various heuristics written by different people at different times.
A new account might incorrectly trigger an account lock due to signals for proxy detection, another lock for a specific 2017 bot wave with Romanian IP addresses and a third generic fake account lock. That, in turn, triggers a recidivism threshold that sets off a permanent disable.
Working ‘at scale’ means that developers who unravel old code to fix a use-blocking problem for 5000 users can be considered astronomically less productive than someone who fixes a minor problem for 100,000+.
Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by Lammy on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:00PM
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> Stopping the influx of bots before they do damage is important.
Why?
Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
by 29083011397778 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:16PM
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Likely because if bad actors add bots and gain followers (across all bot accounts) faster than Twitter kills off the bots, the ratio of bots to real people will eventually (on a long enough timeline) become infinite.
When people notice they're only seeing, hearing from, and seeing retweets from bots, they're likely to leave Twitter. That would be bad for Twitter.
As your account ages there will be more information about whether you are real or not. Stopping the influx of bots before they do damage is important. Therefore it’s quite likely that Twitter ban accounts early if they look like bots based on not much info (and potentially if they look low value).
You followed a few people who are popular account (not friends, fairly anonymous) but not mainstream accounts (so you’re a little more atypical) and then you post once with, sorry to say it, not particularly inspired/original/specific/human content. Perhaps there were other factors. I’d guess you didn’t go through and fill out your profile much if you weren’t that invested in the idea? No birthday or avatar maybe? Not following the easy setup steps that Twitter encourage you to do?
Combine this looking a little like a bot with the likelihood that you’re going to be low value because you’re not that engaged (debatable I know), and it kinda makes sense.
All speculation, but a possibility. Should Twitter be doing this? I don’t think it’s the worst thing, but it’s a trade off. If this is it then it would imply that your marketing efforts for your game would probably not be affected at all.