Re: Serial Number Twitter Hack Pro
Rocki Stenger
UPDATE: Looks they fix the bug, but they restrict my Twitter account temporarily to change or update my email address and mobile number. I remove my phone number in my main Twitter in order to have to get OTP to reset the password on my second one, so I can regain access to deactivate them. After trying to re-link the same old mobile number I use, it just pop an error message saying its broken (first picture).
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This problem deplatformed me. one of my account was banned old times for advertising cryptocurrency, which is not a problem now, they store the account info and basically now i am totally unable to create any account, modify phone or emails or even delete old accounts, i am blocked in a loop of appealing to that decision and it gets denied in 30 seconds after i appeal even if now the reason i got banned is no more an issue. This does not make sense at all, it is just a mask for social control at this point.
This notification can be triggered when an account is both inactive for 45 or more days and the number attached to the account is added to a new account (and the account owner is able to verify their ownership of the number).
If you need to update the phone number attached to your account, you can do so easily by logging in to your account on the web or through your X for iOS or Android app. Learn how to add your phone number to your account.
You can add your phone number to up to 10 accounts. Each account that has your phone number associated with it will still receive SMS text messages for password reset requests or security features like login verification.
From everything I've seen texting STOP to the Twitter short code, which to my understanding is 40404 (that's the number the notifications are coming from) should remove my number from the old user's account.
One reason I could think of that it may not be removing with the text to the short code is that the offending account actually has a Google Voice number listed as their mobile number which is forwarding to me. (Yes, I understand this does not make sense with the previously mentioned not being able to add it to my Twitter account, but I'm desperate.) So I tried adding the number to my Google Voice account, but that did not work either.
Followup: I just tried tweeting myself from their phone so that I could find out who it was and ask them to remove the number from their account, but it seems the tweet never went through. Maybe the account was deactivated?
Since I'm getting no response at all from 40404 (including tweets, STOP, HELP, START, etc) I thought I'd try their international long code (+44 7624 801423). It did not work. I then checked with my carrier, and they do not support international texting. However if you are reading this for help, and your carrier does, please note that I read Twitter requires U.S. users to use the short code, so it probably will not work anyway.
This won't help if you do not have access to your number, but I run into this problem every time I need to create a new twitter account (for projects, for client web sites, the twitter API requires a phone) and I forget which account I put the phone number into, but...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Another day, another series of bizarre events on Twitter.ROB SCHMITZ, HOST: Elon Musk is capping the number of tweets users can see each day. Social media channels typically want to draw as many eyes as possible to their content, so why impose limits on users instead?INSKEEP: Let's put that question to NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, who has been covering Elon Musk, gets an email from him from time to time. Hey there, Bobby.BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Hey, Steve.INSKEEP: OK. So what is Elon Musk doing?ALLYN: Yeah. I mean, even for erratic Musk, this is something of a surprise. He says it's an attempt to crack down on companies that scrape Twitter for data. The idea is that if there's a cap on how many tweets users can read, companies won't be able to do mass data scraping. He originally said unverified accounts can read 600 tweets, and verified accounts can read 6,000. After massive blowback, he raised the cap a few times. It now sits at a thousand tweets for those without blue checks and 10,000 for those paying. Musk says this is all about artificial intelligence companies, right? They train AI models, as we know, by hoovering up tons of data from websites like Twitter. He says all the data scraping makes Twitter less stable for everyday users.It's hard to independently confirm whether this is really why Musk is doing this. But, Steve, there is something we can say without question, and that is Musk is trying to make more money. Twitter has been burning cash for months, and by saying, if you want to read more tweets, you got to pay, Musk hopes more people will open their pocketbooks.INSKEEP: OK. Well, you know, I'm - think I'm like a lot of people. I have a love-hate relationship. I'm on Twitter a lot. I get a lot out of Twitter. But when I first found out I was being limited, I kind of wanted to say thank you for limiting my time on Twitter. How are others - other users responding?ALLYN: Yeah. You hear a lot of that. Some Twitter diehards are upset for that very reason. After hitting the threshold, you're now told your rate limit has been exceeded, and you literally can't see tweets from that point on. But there are some other things to consider. For instance, you know, governments and emergency services that use Twitter to get the word out about severe weather or other dangerous situations, now they could be cut off from the public. That could be a real problem. And advertisers are going to be restricted, and that will mean less revenue generated for Twitter.And some context - this is happening at a time when advertising spending has cratered at Twitter. It's down nearly 60% from a year ago, so bad time to be messing with ad revenue. The new limits were also, you know, so annoying to so many users that many, once again, said, I'm getting off Twitter. I'm going someplace else, maybe Blue Sky, maybe Mastodon. We've been hearing this a lot since Musk bought Twitter back in October.INSKEEP: Yeah. Wasn't there just a wave of people urging everyone to jump ship just a few days ago?ALLYN: Yes, because Twitter imposed a new rule that forced you to have an account in order to read a tweet. And social media experts say this is a very bad idea. It makes Twitter less open, less public and more like a walled garden. Not to mention, you know, if somebody sends you a really funny tweet and you want to see the joke, you can't unless you have a Twitter account. So that's kind of a bummer for people who don't have Twitter.INSKEEP: But are these latest changes permanent?ALLYN: We don't know. We know that Musk says that the cap on tweets is temporary. The you-need-an-account-to-view-a-tweet thing may be permanent. But users are having fun with this, Steve. One wrote, just got rate-limited at my 6,000th tweet and had to leave my office and spend time with my wife and kids for the first time in years. Turns out they're really cool people.INSKEEP: (Laughter) NPR's Bobby Allyn, part of your unlimited diet of NPR News. Bobby, thanks so much.ALLYN: Thanks, Steve.
My latest Twitter status update has the URL Does anyone know if there is any rhyme or reason behind the number 1743967905? It looks to me as though it might be a sequentially-assigned number for all Twitter users; I certainly haven't update 1.7b times, but all of Twitter might be around that. Anyone know?
According to the Twitter API docs it is the numerical ID of the status. I'd guess it's unique and sequential across all users, but I don't know for sure. If you need to know more take a look here for the official docs.
Embedded timelines are an easy way to embed Tweets on your website in a compact, linear view. Choose between a profile timeline to get the latest Tweets from a Twitter account, or a List timeline containing a curated list of Tweets from your favorite Twitter accounts.
An embedded timeline consists of two parts: including an embed code that links your webpage to the timeline on Twitter.com, and the Twitter for Websites JavaScript to transform the link into a fully-rendered timeline.
An embedded timeline automatically adjusts to the width of its parent element with a minimum width of 180 pixels and a maximum width of 520 pixels. The grid display has a minimum width of 220 pixels. Set the maximum width or the maximum height of an embedded timeline by adding a data-width or data-height attribute to the embed code anchor element.
Add a data-tweet-limit attribute to the embed code to specify a number of Tweets. The timeline will automatically adjust its height to display a specified number of Tweets. The timeline is fixed after display; it will not poll for new Tweets until the page is refreshed.
An embedded timeline describes its content for screen readers and other assistive technologies using additional markup defined in WAI-ARIA standards. A timeline widget is a live region of a page which will receive updates when new Tweets become available.
The thing is, since at least as far back as December 2017, the Twitter signup process has not allowed you to choose your own username! It instead gives you a name based on your first and last name, plus eight numbers on the end. You aren't prompted to pick a more distinctive username after that, and you can change it but you need to figure out how to do it yourself. (The December 2017 date was confirmed to me privately by someone who works at Twitter Design.)
This means that when you see a reply from someone with a username with a bunch of numbers in it, it's actually pretty likely that the user is simply someone who joined Twitter after December 2017 and either doesn't care to change their username, or doesn't know that they can change it, or doesn't know how to change it. In other words, it's probably a user who isn't very technically savvy.
Here's my claim: if someone who is not "of Twitter" and is not used to the platform joins Twitter in order to express their opinions, they are also likely to have a username like this. That doesn't mean they are operating in bad faith: it simply means they are new to the platform. Dismissing the opinions of people with usernames in this format as bots or trolls is ultimately a very rude way of saying "you're a newbie, you don't understand how to appear human to me here on Twitter, go away". Personally, I think we should be better than that.
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