Twitter Account Locked? Everything You Need To Know? How To Fix?

Twitter is a social media platform for the big bois; I mean celebrities. However, you can also create a new account and start using it. But sometimes, you...

Rahul Verma

Last updated on July 7, 2023

Rahul Verma

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Rahul is a Computer Science student with a massive interest in the field of Tech and cryptocurrency topics. He spends most of his time either writing or listening to music or traveling un-seen places. He believes that chocolate is the solution to all his problems. Life happens, and coffee helps.

What Is Twitter?

Not aware of the term Twitter? Well, Twitter is a ‘microblogging’ and ‘social networking’ service. Users are allowed to post and send short messages termed as tweets. These tweets can be up to 280 characters long and can contain external links too. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, however, unregistered users can only view the posts.

Twitter users can follow each other. Following someone means you can see their regular tweets on your timeline. So, users can always follow people with common academic and personal interests. Moreover, you can simply retweet on their tweets, retweeting helps quickly share the information with a huge number of people.

Why Twitter Locks Your Account?

Twitter has several ways to restrict access to the user’s accounts, depending on the severity caused due to suspicious behavior or security concerns. If it notices any unsafe activity, Twitter simply locks the account.

Reasons For Temporary Ban

Repeated failed login attempts: In case, you try signing-in to your Twitter account with an incorrect password, Twitter suspects the failed login attempts and locks the account to keep it secure.
Security concern: If Twitter suspects a phishing or malware attempt by an unauthorized user, it immediately locks down the account. Once the account is locked, Twitter sends you an email asking to verify your account and change the password.
Posting the same or similar content repeatedly: Twiter doesn’t want you to act like a bot. DO not post any repeated tweets or messages.
Using abusive language on trending topics: When it comes to handling vulgar and abusive or hate speech, Twitter either temporarily locks your account. So do not indulge in posting or using Hate speech or abusive language.

Reasons For Permanent ban

Sending automated tweets or replies: Twitter doesn’t like bots or actual people who make the use of automated replies system. This is against Twiter’s use of policy and locks down users’ accounts who violate this policy.
Following and Unfollowing a huge number of Twitter accounts: If your following or unfollowing a large group of people, then Twitter will flag your account as a bot, and it will be locked for a few days. This usually happens after you try to follow or unfollow more than 500 accounts in one go.
Impersonating Someone on Twitter: Twitter hates fake people, So do not try to impersonate other real-life people on Twitter. It is okay for fictional characters but not for real-life personalities.
Violation of other Twitter rules: There a Twitter rules & policy page which you accept while signup up fo their services. In case of any violation of that policy, your account might get a temporary or permanent ban. So it would be a good idea to read that policy to avoid any future bans.

How To Recover Your Locked Twitter Account?

The steps for recovering your locked twitter account is quite different from recovering a restricted or suspended account. So, let us have a look at how we can regain access to a locked account.

Firstly, log in to your Twitter account. A message will be displayed notifying you that your account has been locked for some specific reason

How to save your twitter account from locking again?

Unlocking your Twitter account is never that hard. But what’s more important to know is how to prevent further locking of your account in the future. Well, in order to maintain a healthy Twitter social profile, it is important to know what measures we should take to keep it secure. Getting locked up for silly actions can be greatly annoying. So, check out the instructions below to save you Twitter account from locking again:

Be careful while entering your login credentials.

Do not overdo using third-party services

Read the Twitter terms and policies for better understanding and do not violate these policies.

Do not post anything which is against twitter’s terms of use.

Remove all contents containing abusive language.

Try avoiding these mistakes to save your Twitter account from further getting locked in the future.

Conclusion

Twitter is very much cautious about the contents published in it. Though there are many reasons why Twitter may lock your account. But these were the most common among all. And even if Twitter locks your account, the lockdown might be there for 1 hour to 48 hours. Remember the precautions you need to take to avoid locking your account in the future.