Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of 9to5Mac and XDA Developers for not meeting their minimum age requirements. The suspension took effect after publishers changed their dates of birth in their accounts. It was removed for the XDA Developers account a few hours after the ban, although 9to5Mac’s account had not been fully recovered at the time of filing this article. Interestingly, both the accounts have been verified by Twitter and have the coveted blue badge to set them apart from the general public on the platform. The 9to5Mac account is also a part of the Twitter Blue Publishers Network that was introduced last year for US-based publishers to provide ad-free articles to Twitter users and to support online publishers with monetization.
9to5Mac publisher Seth Weintraub takes over Twitter using your personal account to report good suspension. He shared a screenshot showing a notice that read, “To create a Twitter account, you must be at least 13 years old. Twitter has determined that you do not meet these age requirements, so your account is locked.” Has been and will be removed from Twitter.”
The company also asked the publisher to report it directly if the account was accidentally locked.
Weintraub told Gadgets 360 that it used several methods to complain about the issue but the account was still not fully recovered. “Pedestrians have logic in their lockdown mechanism,” he said. “But then there are also no failed safes for Verified or Twitter Blue publishers.”
At the time of publication of the article, the account in question began to show signs of some recovery.
The incident occurred after 9to5Mac’s social media manager Arin Waichulis was promoted to enter a date of birth to conduct ticketed space-paid audio conversations on the platform.
Weintraub told Gadgets 360, “Arin updated his account date of birth because Twitter was probably going to ask for proof of ID.”
However, that move resulted in the account being locked because he was not aged 13 when the 9to5Mac account was originally created 14 years ago – in August 2008.
Per Twitter’s age requirements, people on the Platform must be 13 years of age or older. This also Is necessary Users can delete their prior data if they signed up for an account before the age of 13. But even then, the company doesn’t have a specific age requirement policy for organizations.
As its Editor-in-Chief Amir Siddiqui pointed out on Twitter, the account restriction for XDA Developers has also come into force. However, the XDA Developers account came back A few hours after it was locked.
Gadgets 360 has reached out to Twitter for comment on the matter and will update this article when the company responds.
It’s important to point out that the issue of Twitter deleting an organization’s accounts for not meeting its age requirements is not new. it came in some reports Even in 2018. The company also faced some resentment To permanently lock users on the web from their accounts if they have created them under the age of 13.
After that, Twitter also accepted Apologies to the problem and affected users. However, it looks like the problem still persists and is affecting some publishers – not just individual users.