If you read the various TOS legalese you'll find they are well within their rights to do whatever they want to your account. They don't need a reason.

Would i say it's "right"? No. But it's literally what you're signing up for by using a closed service like Twitter. Free, open alternatives exist. Use them.

A few days ago I had to prove I was human with the weirdest captcha I've ever seen. Then this showed up in my notifications:

>Why does my account have a label? >Transparency on X is very important. This is why we are letting you know that we have found your account may contain spam or be engaging in other types of inauthentic behaviors. You may not engage in behaviors that manipulate X or artificially impact how content is discovered and amplified.

>What does this mean for my account? >The reach of your account may be limited and its content may also be temporarily restricted, such as being excluded from trends, replies, and recommended notifications. You can learn more about this temporary impact to your account here. Our automated systems sometimes make mistakes and we are working to improve them.

No idea what the label is, what I did to incur it, or when if ever it will be lifted. The link to learn more is just generic boilerplate. Great system.

I'm pretty sick of VPN users being punished. If I was going to hack your site I wouldn't use a VPN. I'd change the MAC address on my device and use some free cafe wifi.

I created my Twitter account in 2007 using an email hosted on a domain I own. It was recently hijacked. It’s been made clear I’m not getting the account back.

It’s a weird feeling seeing my feed (I made a new account to view content shared via tweet because the feed is no longer public) and having no control over it.

The topic-starter added a comment there:

"So, yep, I really wasn't even using my VPN that much recently - it's the same one I used for months.

And even bigger problem, of course, is - why just looking at my problem where a user with almost 1000 followers and a community that actively chats and spends a lot of time on X (usually, it's good for ad supported platforms).

So why even quite active paid users can't be checked in at least a day (I think it should be minutes but alas), why 5-7 days! ;-)"

Not sure what the issue here is, if you change your location a lot using VPN, it will trigger their bot detection and lock you out, its a feature.

You can always ask for a refund in situations like this and resubscribe to x premium.

A real problem with these platforms not just x is mass reporting, fake DMCAs all pose vulnerabilities which are hard to address.

Even on HN, if you have non-conforming opinions of those with higher points, you will be censored, flagged etc.

I just got suspended for an innocuous reply to a journalist that I follow. It's the only time I've ever posted on Twitter. Something is wrong over there.

The anti-bot stuff on X is overtly aggressive.

As Melon Usk and having your account not flagged as parody/satire you're already pushing/breaking a rule.

VPN usage is typically what causes that first image. You then click start and it makes you do a captcha or something. If you failed the captcha or whatever they asked you to do... that's on you.