<story><title>Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I made a twitter account once. I followed maybe 4 people basically as a way to subscribe to whatever they were saying, then liked a few posts.&lt;p&gt;I got banned the same day and told that I had violated their tos in an undefined way and that attempts to contact support would be ignored. My only tweet was to say that I had finally made a dumb twitter account.&lt;p&gt;Maybe the assumption was that every human on earth must already have a twitter account, so any new account must be a bot?&lt;p&gt;These platforms are just ridiculous and we shouldn’t use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derbOac</author><text>I got banned before I even posted anything. I had the account, then the third time I logged in it locked me out because of unspecified suspicious behavior. It was baffling.&lt;p&gt;Later I tried again with a different account and they wanted a phone number. It was a huge turnoff.&lt;p&gt;People give Signal heat about wanting a number but they won&amp;#x27;t even bat an eye at the same behavior from Twitter.&lt;p&gt;Frustrating to say the least.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I made a twitter account once. I followed maybe 4 people basically as a way to subscribe to whatever they were saying, then liked a few posts.&lt;p&gt;I got banned the same day and told that I had violated their tos in an undefined way and that attempts to contact support would be ignored. My only tweet was to say that I had finally made a dumb twitter account.&lt;p&gt;Maybe the assumption was that every human on earth must already have a twitter account, so any new account must be a bot?&lt;p&gt;These platforms are just ridiculous and we shouldn’t use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickaljord</author><text>Were you using tor, brave, strong adblocking or a disposable email and refused to give your phone number? All these things will get you banned now when trying to open a new account.</text></comment>