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Twitter is auto-locking accounts of anyone who posts this “No war on Iran” image (twitter.com/benjaminnorton)
26 points by k1m on Jan 5, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Remember that in the meantime Elon Musk impersonators are still having fun posting obvious cryptocurrency scams that can be detected with simple regexes if anyone wanted to.


I hate Twitter as much as the next person but this looks like an example of automation gone awry. There are many people on that thread who are posting the same pic and their accounts are not locked.


Looks like that may be it, but shouldn't they be able to fix that? Locking an account seems a bit extreme for something like this.


This sounds like an automated anti-spam thing to me.




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