Twitter has issued a warning to its
users about the latest viral prank circulating on the platform that can get
them locked out of their account.
The hoax has been making rounds
since Monday. What it does is promise to turn users’ feeds more ‘colorful’ if
they change the birth year in their profile to 2007.
A tweet mentioning the said trick
has been retweeted 13,000 times, but the only thing that changes color after
changing the birth year is the user’s face, who will no longer be able to log
in to his/her account.
Changing your birth year to 2007
makes you 12 years old while Twitter rules do not allow people under the age of
13 to have an account on the platform. That is how the users are getting locked
out of their accounts.
Amid all this chaos, Twitter
Support deemed it necessary to warn the users about the prank. The tweet said,
“We’ve noticed a prank trying to get people to change their Twitter birthday in
their profile to 2007 to unlock new color schemes. Please don’t do this. You’ll
get locked out for being under 13 years old.”
The support channel further guided
the users to regain access to their accounts. The users need to reach out to
Twitter Support and submit a government-issued identification document to
verify their real age.
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