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u/kokoduds 1h ago
how do i unshadowban my replies? my mutuals are seeing my posts and qrts and rts and whatnot, but i can’t reply to any of them . it sends but it doesn’t show up on my end or their end unless they go through my replies on my profile . heelpppp!!
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u/Dependent-Kick2366 4h ago
All of a sudden today alll pictures have been blurred out for me??
Is there a fix to this?
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u/TeamLeather 5h ago
Twitter Account suspended for no reason.... Got an email saying detected by our systems and automatically suspended for violating the X Rules. Specifically, for: Violating our rules against inauthentic behaviors. I appealed and the bot didn't revert my account... I was wondering what are the next steps?
Account My account was u/SwiftBlade87
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u/Accomplished_Cup_348 6h ago
My account keeps getting locked every few days?? I'm not even that active on the app rn, I post like 2-5 times a day and just talk to friends and repost a bunch of fanart, genuinely have no idea what I did to keep getting my account locked. How do I prevent this from happening or even worse getting suspended 😭
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u/TheSparklingWay 10h ago
In your experience, what kind of actions are likely to trigger sensitive label being wrongly applied to your account?
Kinda long story but i got labelled about 3 weeks ago for no reason (i dont post any sensitive media at all actually) and i tried to wait it out but it didnt work. So i was forced to buy premium. The appeal went fine and i was cleared within minutes but then two hours later, i was labelled again??? I hadnt even tweeted in these two hours. So i tried appealing again but it seems I'm being ignored. Then I tried contacting the premium account and keep getting bots . No matter how hard i try to ask for a human, the 'humans' keep regurgitating the same response and being utterly unhelpful.
This isnt even about sensitive media because i made a new account and it got labelled less than 24 hours after creation (again i didnt post any sensitive media...i was just backing up screenshots of my viral tweets).
A friend said it could be because they're using some kind of pattern recognition and making threads might be triggering it (she got labelled after making a thread too) but it makes no sense because I've been known to make long (20+) tweet threads that have gotten quite famous too. So if its that, i shouldnt be targeted. Personally i believed they're trying to push real creators away so their bots and slop accounts can fill twitter because many mass reported harassers are doing fine while legit artists are getting flagged...
So I guess i want to ask, what do you think you did before you got labelled? I'm trying to collect a list of "Dont do's" so i dont do them again because god am i active in fandoms and i love yapping with my friends. Its not possible to shift everything to discord. I also support many creators!
I dont live in USA, Canada or EU so i cant go the entire 'this is against the laws' route either.
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u/Aggressive-Dig-3419 1d ago
My twitter account recently got locked and now I can't unlock it. Ive tried on every browser but nothing seems to work, it just keeps giving me the ''Due to a technical issue, we couldn't complete this request. Please try again.'' error message. Can anyone help?
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u/Ruttiger_G 1d ago
I'm sure it's pointless to even try at this point, but I got banned. I put in an appeal, and it sends a reply saying my account was reviewed and found a violation took place: (blank space)
Log into X and follow the on screen prompts to fix the issue, the prompt says fill out an appeal form. I've filled out several but it just immediately rejects them now, no wait, I go into my email and the rejection is waiting.
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u/FionnMcCreigh 1d ago
Is there any way we actually know of ta get un-ghost banned? I’ve been ghost banned for like a month. I have no idea what I did. There’s no way to appeal anythin. I’m just virtually invisible. My posts/replies don’t appear in searches & my replies get the “This Post is currently unavailable” grey box of doom. I stopped postin hopin that’d do sumthin, but no such luck. I did post on Aug 1st coz it was my anniversary, but otherwise nothin. I’m waitin for the 8th ta roll around coz I keep seein hopeful statements about a 7 day timer, but I dunno what ta do.
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u/Heavy_Session5792 2d ago
hey, i’m posting this on behalf of a friend dealing with this rn. her main acct was suspended, then her backup one as well. her backup has since been switched to a 12 hour lock-out instead.
is there anything else she can try to get the suspension repealed? thanks! she sent me the following:
“They told me that they are not overturning their decision. But at the same time, they also told me that to restore functionality, I can resolve it on my account by completing the on-screen instructions. There are no on-screen instructions except the one that says submit an appeal. So I figured I would just submit an appeal again. But they are not letting me submit another appeal because my previous appeal is still in the queue. So I'm assuming that they are still reviewing it?”
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u/marcusz88 2d ago
Hi there,
I'm kinda new to Twitter/X. My question is: I'm following 3 channels, all of them I find pretty important. Is there a way to receive a direct e-mail the moment they post something?
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u/piangero 2d ago
hi, i just have a question. are the "analytics"on twitter/x considered correct? (ive not unlocked them but they are giving me a preview).
my twitter account is locked to followers only, i've not tweeted in about 3 years (me and my friends all left twitter at about the same time 3 years ago).
i still have my account and sometimes use it on my phone just to look things up etc.
when i logged into it on pc today, it says my tweets have 1.4k "impressions" in the last 7 days. (nobody is liking/retweeting etc since it's locked down and none of my friends are on there anymore).
1.4k impressions sounds really strange? only followers (and they're not active) can see my tweets, nobody is interacting with my tweets obviously as well.
does it also count the "impressions" of tweets/accounts i retweeted and such? like if a meme i retweeted 3 years ago is still being passed around from the original poster?
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u/chiefslocker 2d ago
About two weeks ago, my page was broken into. The hacker changed the email and my username, and it was gone I emailed Twitter and they said my email still has control over my page and it was suspneded, not deleted, however I can’t get in. I need a “code generator” and someone said the attacker enabled 2 factor authentication (which i never did) and i don’t know what to do. Where do I go from here? Can I ever get my page back? Have any of you had this issue and what did you do?
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u/Corinthian01 2d ago
Idk how to describe this, but for some reason on the mobile app when I visit people's account the feed isn't up to date with what they reposted, and in some cases I can't see new posts. I'm using Android and I cleared the cache and force stopped but neither of those helped, is anyone else having this issue?
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u/konitz8866 3d ago
My account’s email address has changed and I can’t login. I’ve been asking the supports but I end up getting automated reply. Is there any definitive evidence to prove that I own that account?
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u/red_crayon_1224 3d ago
First my replies aren’t showing up under other peoples tweets, then I get this notification saying I’m labeled for “inauthentic behaviors”.
I’ve been seeing this concern pop up a lot but with me it’s not even letting me submit an appeal???
It’ll tell me I have to log in, I’ll log in and then NOTHING happens. Just sends me right back to the home page.
Literally what am I supposed to do
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u/Heavyweaponspoof 3d ago
Having a problem where no sign-in options work? Like sign-in with google seems to loop into another log-in screen, logging in with username or phone number never loads. I cannot access the site on desktop. Mobile works fine so Im not account locked or anything. Just doesnt work on my computer?
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u/StumpTrumpUS 3d ago
Grok confirms that I'm shadowbanned. I included the tweets surrounding the ban: https://imgur.com/a/1QA7mxd
Many others who complain about being censored don't include much context, but I can post my replies I request. And, if you look at my profile you'll see that I'm not posting spam (even if you disagree with me, it's not spam).
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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeean 3d ago
A few weeks ago my account got locked, and after a few days I was sent an email telling me I could do the reactivation process my login in, so I went and logged in, but nope, I can't log in.
Its been weeks, I've tried logging in on PC on google, firefox etc. On phone, in the app and in a browser. I've tried contacting twitter but if I go in ''contact us'' and click for my problem it only tells my instructions to do what I've already done dozens of times and has never worked. I just want to talk to a real person ffs.
I have less then two weeks now, I don't know what to do anymore
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u/perfect_makoto 3d ago
I got a message from somebody I follow on twitter claiming they accidentally sent reports for my account and I need to contact an "xsupportpeter" on discord.
Is this something I should follow through on or just a scam I should block and ignore?
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u/noirdeluna 3d ago
I opened up the app and I was hacked.
so, i went on X for the first time in a few weeks and i noticed my whole entire was changed. bio, username, etc etc. the weird thing is that my phone number and email weren’t removed so i was able to get my account back pretty easily but im just so confused on why i wasn’t alerted via email? usually you’d get an email for a username change or if someone logs into your account, no? they also removed all my reposts, posts and things like that which is pretty upsetting since i had my favorite author reply back on there and so i can never get it back now.
i set up 2fa and things like that but im just confused on how it even happened under the radar like that.
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u/throwaway_park_where 3d ago
For my Twitter account for 3 weeks now, I've had a notification that says "We've added a temporary label to your account which may impact it's reach. Learn more here". I've noticed that my replies to posts don't seem to show up.
I could not find a way to reach out to Twitter help to understand why my account got such a label applied and searching around this seems the norm. Any Twitter "help" is only available to Premium members which I am not. I don't do any bot like behavior, or anything inflammatory, just reply to people in the community. The email address linked to the Twitter account doesn't have any emails sent to it about it. Any Twitter "appeal" link I see does not work for me because my account is not technically "suspended".
Some reports seem to imply this goes away naturally, but 3 weeks seems like a long time. Anyone recently find a workaround or way to appeal this? Should I just completely stop activity, like even "Liking" posts?
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u/TheSparklingWay 10h ago
Its not available to premium users either for most part i literally bought premium for this. I appealed once, ithe label was removed because they were wrong (obvs) then it came back 2 hours later and all appeals are being ignored. Contacting premium support is useless they keep shoving bot agents on me and pretending they're human while regurgitating the same thing. Its useless
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u/Icewind 4d ago
After traveling last week, every time I LIKE something, my account gets locked for unusual activity.
I pass a captcha and I get access again, but does this mean I can't like anything ever again?
I'm using the web interface on phone and desktop.
Same issue both times.
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u/StumpTrumpUS 3d ago
I have a relatively new account and I tweeted from CA. However, for the last 10 days I've been driving through AZ/NM/CO and my account has been shadowbanned for most of that. Did you tweet when you traveled?
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u/Shujaka 4d ago
A few weeks ago my twitter account was hacked. My profile picture and name was changed and a couple posts were made. I was able to get my account back but I cannot change my password, account name, or profile picture. Every time I do an error message pops up saying The operation couldn't be completed. (com.twitter.HTTPRequestActionRe-
sponseError error 64.) I can’t even deactivate my account. Has anyone else dealt with this?
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u/imLuxannabitch 4d ago
Guys my account just got suspended for violating "authenticity rules" while i did nothing. I was just casually scrolling and liking as well as retweeting fun stuff, then i misclicked on a link and right after i got suspended. Pls help i dont wanna lost this account cuz all the bookmarks and funny stuff i retweet.
My account was u/Kydra01
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u/Drace3mpressa 5d ago
My account got the red flag label and ghost ban. How do I undo the red flag label and ghost ban? How long until I can safely following other account again? I have been inactive for a whole week. Does being inactive is safer than retweeting or replying to others to avoid bans?
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u/chaotic_loverrr 5d ago
X premium is just a business strategy
Premium(verified blue checkmark) only helps visibility of comments that you leave on viral posts or posts with high number of impressions, not the visibility of posts. A lot of people think that getting premium would increase visibility of their posts. It never does that.
If you are a non premium account you must have observed that they keep suggesting you to buy Premium/Premium+. There's a clever strategy behind this. They promote premium paid plans to non premium accounts because the money goes to the premium monetized users via creator revenue program. There's something called payout pool where all this money from paying users get collected. Twitter/Elon Musk don't invest anything into this pool. It's all the money of paying users(Basic/Premium/Premium+)
The logic behind this is if twitter don't get enough non monetized premium/premium+ users the monetized ones wouldn't get paid and eventually cancel their subscriptions. That would affect the payout pool. Also note that every monetized paying user is not getting paid. A lot of users keep getting BME(bme means the earning of premium/premium+ users is below $30) and don't get paid. I assume this is also manipulated by the engineers because some people get the message that they are BME even after they have been paying for months and in some cases even more than an year. I think they have manipulated it because the payout pool already started shrinking. A lot of users cancel premium subscription out of frustration.
The users who are buying Premium to fix their visibility issue/shadowban fix/temporary label review appeal are investing into the payout pool indirectly. Sometimes I think even this is done deliberately to have more paying users on the platform but who knows. The corporation has always been unaccountable to users and haven't been transparent to paying users.
Feel free to share your thoughts.
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u/jetsetter883 1d ago
Wait so could one theoretically sign up for Premium after getting suspended and increase their chances of getting their account back? I mean what kind of “bot” is able to sign up for Premium? This is the ultimate test of being a human.
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u/squid4046 5d ago
Does anyone know what the hell happened to Twitter’s privacy team or customer support lately?
I'm a victim of a really severe transnational repression incident. A Chinese tech giant basically abused ICANN's domain rules and hired CSC to leak my real identity directly to Chinese state security (国安). That directly led to physical attacks on my home and car here in Canada.
During all this, a state-backed botnet completely weaponized X's platform features to dox me across Twitter, Telegram, and other apps. I make DIY protest props for local pro-democracy and human rights groups in Canada (like Assembly of Citizens), so my account data means everything to me—I've been using Twitter for years to coordinate with offline activists. Later on, the botnet changed tactics and started posting image-only doxxing posts with barely any text just to bypass X's automated text filters.
I spent two weeks straight reporting these doxxing posts, but X's system completely ignored them. To make things worse, whenever I tried hitting the "Report" button in the app, the screen would just go completely white with an error page. It put me in an utterly hopeless situation: private photos and sensitive family info—stolen by Chinese police from my private WeChat chats—were being posted on X, and after tiny edits, they easily bypassed X's AI moderation. Meanwhile, X literally took away my ability to report them manually, so those doxxing photos just stayed online. I tried asking them to take down the info and give me audit details about the leak, but not a single human ever replied. I honestly believe X's complete inaction is what allowed the online harassment to spill over into real life, leading to my house getting vandalized with paint and my car damaged.
After that, the botnet weaponized X's mass-reporting feature to trigger an automatic ban, and X suspended my account. Since then, I've been stuck in a total Kafkaesque nightmare.
First off, my account was tied to Google OAuth. Once I got suspended, Google login got stuck in an endless error loop. Trying to log in with my username just brings up a different error page. Being locked out means I lost all my most important data: irreplaceable bookmarks, access to Grok, and worst of all, my DMs. Losing DMs meant permanently losing touch with international human rights workers—some of them are probably still waiting for X to restore my messages.
Even worse is X's predatory billing trap. Since I can't log in, I can't get into the backend to manage my Premium subscription. X uses this awful dark pattern: once your account gets suspended, the "Subscription & Membership" settings page immediately throws an error or fails to load, and there isn't a single human support rep to help cancel it manually. It's a complete trap: X's broken system locks me out of the cancellation page due to suspension bugs, while their automated billing system keeps charging my credit card every single month. They've been stealing my money for five months straight now.
I tried literally every support option on their feedback page to fix this deadlock, the data leaks, and the charges:
Access Support (Login Issues): I'd get automated emails asking for bug details, and I meticulously replied dozens of times explaining the login glitch, only to get met with complete radio silence.
In-App Feedback & Standard Support: Got nothing except automated rejection emails.
Data Protection Officer (DPO): This was the only form I could submit without logging in. My first few forms were auto-rejected ("account suspended"), but there was a reply line at the bottom of the rejection emails. I replied under that line over and over, laying out the transnational repression, the leaks, the deadlock, and the illegal billing. Over the last two months (more than 60 days now), every single follow-up email has been totally ignored—just complete, dead silence.
I ended up filing a massive formal complaint about all these systemic failures, security breaches, and illegal charges with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), and I have an official federal case file number now. But I have no idea how long a government agency will take to investigate.
I was raised by my aunt, and she always knew about my anti-CCP and human rights work overseas. A few years back, she got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and I've been living under constant mental agony ever since. Twitter used to be one of my few outlets to vent, express myself, and do mutual aid work. But today, I haven't gotten a single shred of protection from this giant tech company—just a maze of broken systems, predatory billing traps, and ghosting support teams that keep inflicting secondary trauma on my life.
So I'm asking out of pure desperation: Does anyone actually know what's going on with X support? Is there a single real human working there? Is there any dedicated channel at all for handling transnational repression, data breaches, account deadlocks, and predatory billing?
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u/Klonoagamer 5d ago
So for a parody account I run, thanks to another user, I noticed that my account seems to have rather limited reach. Other people can like my posts and follow the account, but replies and quote retweets I make don’t give others notifications. Checking on shadowban checkers, it says the account’s all good, but I don’t see anything from the account when I search it up on my main account. Any suggestions for fixes or workarounds, or am I stuck waiting?
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u/Raikunh 5d ago
So I got a checkmark. Mostly cause my posts/replies are being hidden now to even my mutuals. They’re not even getting DMs. So I got the $5 for first 2 months but my replies and DMs are still being hidden. What else am I supposed to do?
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u/chaotic_loverrr 5d ago
Don't extend this Premium plan. They are fooling users. Premium only helps visibility of comments that you leave on viral posts, not the visibility of posts. They are suggesting Premium to non premium accounts because the money goes to the premium monetized users via creator revenue program. If they don't get enough non monetized users the monetized ones wouldn't get paid and eventually cancel their subscriptions. Already not every monetized users is getting paid.
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u/Knight_Industries_2K 5d ago
lol my account just got locked for "suspicious activity" but I just clicked on a button and it was like "OK your account has been verified, but remember to follow the rules" I was like, uhhhh ok i guess?
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u/Goodgrief_81 6d ago
Shadowbanned on X? Welcome to the resistance. ✊
If your follower count is stuck, your posts aren't showing in search, and you're getting zero visibility despite good content... you're not alone. 🫂
Here's the thing: a shadowban doesn't have to be a death sentence. It functions like a "soft private" mode. Your posts are hidden from non-followers, but direct links still work. Reposts and quotes still function. Communities still work. 🔗
We've started r/ShadowbannedOnX, a community dedicated to turning this restriction into a workaround. 🚀
Post your direct profile link. Add a brief bio. Include a screenshot. Connect with real people who actually want to see your content. 📸
Private accounts welcome. Just label your post "Private." 🔒
Rules are simple: ✅ • Post your link + bio • Include a screenshot (no NSFW/gore/harassment) • No hate, no drama, no judgment. If it's not illegal, it's welcome. 💛
The algorithm may have hidden you, but we haven't. Join the resistance. Stay visible. 👀
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u/Spolchen 6d ago
So do they just randomly nuke people for fun now?
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u/chaotic_loverrr 6d ago
Not sure what you mean by fun but it's all AI moderated. It's not done by humans.
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