Twitterarti’s have been falling for a prank that guarantees them different color scheme if they change their birth year to 2007.

What it really does is it keeps you out of your account for being under 13 years of age. Twitter rules don’t permit users underneath 13 years old to utilize the social network platform.

The tweets began flowing since Monday, 25 March.

There’s no telling what number of individuals have fallen for the trick, yet it’s evidently enough for Twitter to caution users about the falsehood.

The prank grabbed enough eyes for the Twitter support team to step in. On Wednesday, Twitter asked people to not succumb to this trick – “Kindly don’t do this. You’ll get bolted out for being under 13 years of age,” the tweet read.

Tweets for this prank have gotten 15,000 retweets and approximately 20,000 preferences.

A year ago, Twitter had begun blocking accounts of users who acknowledged themselves as being below 13 years of age. This occurred after the European information insurance guidelines (GDPR) became effective.

If you search “2007 birthday” on Twitter, it’s apparent just how many people appear to have gotten locked out of their accounts.

Twitter users seem really upset regarding this fake act:

Twitter is still trying to aware the users: