My Twitter account just got locked. I can’t unlock it even with my phone number, it just says “
” Normal UK mobile phone number that I’ve had for at least 10 years. There doesn’t seem to be any way to give it a different one, either.I’ve no idea why I was locked — presumably if I could get past the phone number thing it might tell me, but I can’t begin to guess.
In the meantime, see my contact page to get in touch. The twitter account @jagifier might also be of interest
It seems my tweets are still visible (but shadow-banned and behind a warning), but I can’t log in. https://twitter.com/anomalyuk/with_replies
Update 21st November 2018: When I checked today my account had gone from locked to suspended. There was still no indication of why it was suspended. I filled in the appeal form and it got unsuspended within about 10 minutes.
My hypothesis is that this tweet thread triggered some “election interference” heuristic, and the technical problem with my cellphone number meant that the account lock was an absolute barrier.