Something at Twitter has gone horribly, hilariously wrong: The social media site has unceremoniously declared us all to be robots. Well, maybe not
all of us, but more than a few folks on Gizmodo staff as well as dozens of users across the web. Affected users trying to Tweet from Twitter’s web client are being told their messages “look automated,” and have been blocked to protect other users from “spam and malicious activity.”
Pretty harsh, considering all this dude wants to do is talk about
Better Call Saul:
Just here trying to compliment E2 of Better Call Saul but Twitter thinks I'm a robot spamming the TL.
— ਗੁਰਵਿੰਦਰ (@RobbieDhesi) February 10, 2015
Or poor @kittysaysmoo, who suddenly lost her ability to
decipher random letters and numbers:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/565295000284835841
Others have taken the sudden transformation as an opportunity to learn a new language:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/565296169157685249
Some folks are looking on the bright side:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/565299708315566080
But mostly, people are just confused:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/565296470384181248
I haven't been able to tweet for like 6 hours because I guess twitter thinks I'm a robot now?? so that's cool pic.twitter.com/Bs1BPv7KiN
— Haley (@astral_cars) February 10, 2015
Apparently Twitter thinks I'm a robot and just locked my account. Cheers for that! Really enjoyed faffing around with that 👍
— Sarah (@facetalktalk) February 10, 2015
Twitter thinks I'm a robot and won't let me post. This is a text from my phone, so hopefully it works?
— Alex Dunn (@AxeloftheKey) February 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/embed/status/565290954249498626
web twitter thinks I'm a bot and won't let me tweet, this explains a lot of things
— Hogg Towers (@piss_wizard) February 10, 2015
At least it can be fixed:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/565299164230475778
Most of these tweets have popped up over the last hour, and we’re not entirely sure what’s going out. Twitter has already posted that
it’s aware of the issue, and on inquiry, Twitter point us back to its post.
Update: Well, that was quick! Twitter has updated its status page to say that it has resolved the issue:
[ Update 16:21 PST ]
Between 15:18 and 16:11 PST today, some users were unable to Tweet and received a notice telling them they’ve been locked out.
This issue has now been fully resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.
