Your Twitter Account Has Been Locked

[Liliane Hubright]

Ifyour X account is locked or limited to certain account features, it may be compromised or in violation of the X Rules or Terms of Service. When this happens, the first step is to verify you are the rightful account owner. Keep reading to get help restoring account access, or check out our FAQs to learn more about locked and limited accounts.

If you see a message that says your account has been locked for security purposes, this means that we have detected suspicious behavior, and it appears as though your account may have been compromised.

Note: If your account appears to have engaged in repeated violations of the X Rules, or has aggressively engaged with other accounts, you may not be presented with the option to verify by phone. In this case, you will only be able to use X in a limited state for the specified time listed.

To restore your account by verifying your phone number or email address, select Verify, and follow the instructions we provide. Verifying your phone number and email address helps reduce potentially automated or scripted activity on X.

If your account has been limited because it may have violated the X Rules, you can still browse X, but while in this state, you can only send Direct Messages to your followers. You will not be able to engage in actions such as posting, reposting, or liking, and only your followers can see your past posts.

If your account is temporarily restricted, people who visit your profile may see a message letting them know the account may have violated the X Rules and asking them to confirm they still want to view it.

We may ask you to complete certain actions before we start the countdown on your limited state. These actions may include verifying your email address, adding a phone number to your account, or deleting posts that are in violation of our rules.

To deactivate your locked account, please refer to our troubleshooting articles or submit a request here. Requests can also be addressed to the contacts listed under the How To Contact Us section of our Privacy Policy.

Your account @ISCPIF has been locked

Twitter uses the personal data in your account to provide its services. But because Twitter has determined that you are under the age required in your country to consent to the processing of your personal data, your account has been locked.

Your account will be removed from Twitter unless a parent or guardian provides consent on your behalf. In order to keep your account, please provide the contact information for a parent or guardian.

Yeah - someone from twitter will have to answer that one - but last time i remember it was fixed when someone submitted their own details via the form (when logged in at the locked account). The birthday might be stuck in the profile but you can hide that.

I am in the same case, account blocked since September 2020. When I request an appeal of the blocking decision, I receive a Twitter email which tells me that an appeal is already in progress. But I never received a first email for this blockage.

If Twitter wants to keep users from leaving the service, this is not a good retention strategy. While I've been locked out of Twitter twice, I know of several bot accounts that have operated with impunity for years despite having been reported for rules violations multiple times. This whole situation is a complete joke. At the moment, however, I am not amused.

I don't understand how Twitter's bot fighting strategy is even effective. Ultimately there are humans running the bot accounts, so if an account gets locked out, the account owner can give Twitter a throwaway phone number and be back in business. If it were that easy to eliminate bots, Twitter could eliminate them all in one fell swoop. But a phone number means nothing.

Twitter's algorithms are not accurate enough to justify punitive action. Too many innocent users get locked out too often. In my opinion, if Twitter's algorithms identify botlike behavior, that should simply trigger an internal investigation by a Twitter employee, without warning the account holder. If further investigation shows that the account is a bot, then the account should be suspended with no possibility of automatic unlocking. The account should only be unlocked if a personal written appeal by the account holder explains how the account was legitimate. On the other hand, if the investigation shows the account is not a bot, then no action is taken, and no harm is done to the account holder. The false positive result can then be used to improve the algorithms.

Twitter may lock or temporarily restrict certain features of your account if it suspects that it has been compromised or if it detects violations of the Twitter rules. This is indicated by a message stating that your account is locked or some features are restricted when you log in or open the app.

If automated operations that violate Twitter rules are observed on your account, Twitter may lock your account and ask for confirmation that you are the legitimate owner. In this case, too, an email with instructions should have been sent, so follow these instructions to change your password and secure your account. In this case, you will need to enter your phone number.

If your account has been restricted because you may be violating the Twitter rules, which will be discussed later, you can still use Twitter, but you will only be able to send direct messages to your followers. You will not be able to tweet, retweet, or like, and only your followers will be able to view your past tweets.

For example, if excessive following or similar actions (including excessive likes, retweets, and quote tweets) are detected on your account, it may be considered a violation of Twitter rules as spam, and a message will be displayed stating that certain features of your account will be restricted for a certain period.

However, if you are seen as repeatedly violating Twitter rules or excessively interfering with other accounts, the option to verify by phone number may not be provided. In this case, your use of Twitter will remain restricted until the specified period ends.

It is possible to lift the suspension by following the appropriate procedures. However, if you are unable to do so, you can file an appeal. You fill in the necessary information on a dedicated platform and submit it.

Twitter has established daily limits on direct messages (DMs), tweets, and the number of followers to reduce system load and prevent downtime and error pages. Particularly for businesses, it is necessary to understand these limits to avoid temporary restrictions on functionality.

It is said that Twitter is enhancing machine detection to detect violations at an early stage. Use this article as a reference to avoid locks, restrictions, and suspensions, and if such a situation occurs, respond calmly.

I found this tweet funny, so I replied with the following. Below is a screenshot of the tweet because I had to delete the original tweet to fix the violation and prevent my Twitter account from getting banned permanently.

With 3 minutes from detection to email, I guess detection took less than 1 minute and flagging and other things took the remaining time. That is blazingly fast. Kudos to the Twitter team on that. I guess what Twitter violation detection algorithm SLAs are.

Unified communication across all devices. The violation notification email and pop-up on the Web and Twitter app for iPhone had consistent and clear messaging. Here is the screenshot of the email.

Moments later, at 9:31 AM, I got a confirmation email from Twitter stating that my appeal had been successfully submitted. Still, if I would instead blindly acknowledge my violation, I could get full functionality sooner. I decided to wait.

I did learn a lot about the complexity of the Twitter appeal and violation process. I have sympathy for the Twitter team. Keep up the good work. You have a long way to go to make Twitter the platform we all want to hang around.

You dont want to open source rhe code because it makes Twitter vulnerable? How lame. Security through obscurity is a futile endeavor, and open sourcing the algo doesn't mean we need the whole codebase. You're being a corporate suck-up. And it's duct tape; not ducktape, you lame duck.

Let me save you some time and effort before you head to the comment section and tell me my command is wrong, and it should be a \u2018s/all/.\u2019 I was not trying to be technically correct. I was trying to be funny. In retrospect, \u201CSudo kill -9 1\u201D would have been a funnier tweet \uD83D\uDE02

The Twitter violation algorithm took 3 minutes to detect, flag, lock my account, and send me an email. There is no way a human can read tweets so fast, so it\u2019s a violation detection bot army doing at work. Doing this at scale means all tweets are following some fast regex, and likely, an AI is getting trained and making decisions. I plan to deep dive into this topic and share it in a follow-up post.

The email doesn\u2019t tell me which tweet caused the violation. I am not a power tweeter. It was easy for me to figure out which tweet triggered the violation. But this is a serious communication gap for people who tweet a lot. How does one determine what caused the violation and prevent a future violation without any information?

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