breaking up with Twitter

Sun, 29 May 2016 12:36:00 -0400

This morning I found myself locked out of my Twitter account. Twitter claimed that my account was playing shenanigans (inconceivable!) and that to rescue my account, I had to give Twitter my phone number to validate that it’s really me.

Except Twitter never had my phone number before, so giving it to them would validate nothing.

Twitter and I have had a rough year. I was pretty active under the account @Magnus919, but had to abandon it since Twitter did not give me the means by which to clean up the cruft in my content. Earlier this year, I moved to @MagNetDevOps which was being used a little more carefully, and for the purpose of engaging with the professional community in my field.

locked out of Twitter for using Tor

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 16:59:18 -0400

If anybody finds themselves missing my tweets, note that Twitter decided to lock my account for accessing it through Tor. I thought I’d post a little bit about it, because I’m sure this has got to be a problem for people in parts of the world where they must use technology like Tor to connect and enjoy some freedom of speech.

They even sent me a nice note right away with a temporary code (reswizzled here). Shame the temporary code didn’t work.

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breaking up with Twitter

locked out of Twitter for using Tor