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Re:Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread by gathersight on Friday November 25, 2022 @12:17PM (#33744591)
Changing the 'birth' date of a Twitter account to anything less than 13 years old results in the account be immediately locked without warning and without a mechanism to reset. This is obviously an age consent control but the undo has disappeared.

Lots of posts complaining about this to the Twitter support account. Especially problematic for a brand or organization account younger than 13 years. Ironically @twittersupport was born in March 2021, so they seem to have slipped themselves through the net!

Re:Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread by adamrezich on Friday November 25, 2022 @12:49PM (#33744938)
works fine on my machine
Re:Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread by moomin on Friday November 25, 2022 @01:02PM (#33745075)
I’m seeing a lot of unrelated people reporting that their follower accounts are cratering. The two big explanations for this some problem with the system that maintains the count, or a large number of accounts leaving. The best case scenario is that most of those accounts are bots, but even rats leaving isn’t a good sign of seaworthiness.
Re:Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread by rsynnott on Friday November 25, 2022 @04:06PM (#33746744)
I think it’s going to greatly depend on what community you’re in. Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of people I follow leave (I’m keeping my own account dormant but existing for the moment, because, who knows, Twitter may yet go the way of Tumblr and get sold off cheap to someone more competent in the end).

Of course, it could just be a data problem, too.

Re:Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread by lambic2 on Friday November 25, 2022 @01:12PM (#33745170)
You can get that by looking at the Twitter subreddit sorting a newest posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/new/
Re:Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread by Raed667 on Friday November 25, 2022 @04:34PM (#33747061)
I've noticed an uptick in DM spam. I get added to a groups of ~50 people, with some spammy message about crypto / remote work / hustle ...

Also any tweet that talks about tiktok or snapchat gets a lot of reply spam that doesn't seem to be moderated.