Twitterarti’s have been falling for a prank that guarantees them different color scheme if they change their birth year to 2007.
damn changing your birth year to 2007 makes your twitter feed all colourful we been missin out
— 44 (@s_rxii) March 25, 2019
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.
So basically I fell for one of those “if you change your Twitter birthday to 2007, you get cool colour schemes and themes” tweets.
Now I’m too young to be on the app and have to wait until I turn 13 before I can use my og account.
— Peter Baeless Reincarnate (@plsankosi) March 26, 2019
The tweets began flowing since Monday, 25 March.
Change your birthday on Twitter to 2007 and your account will have a variety of new colour schemes to choose from
— Jasjit (@jasjit18) March 25, 2019
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.
We’ve noticed a prank trying to get people to change their Twitter birthday in their profile to 2007 to unlock new color schemes. Please don’t do this. You’ll get locked out for being under 13 years old.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 26, 2019
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.
She read a tweet saying if you put your birthday as 2007 your Twitter will be colorful 💀😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/xOW9kPfC3T
— STAY HIGH (@stay420_high) March 27, 2019
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:
Pls @twitter I just want my account back my birthday is 1999 not 2007 😪 pic.twitter.com/7eHYGmEtsg
— 🤬 (@ahlaammomr) March 25, 2019
had to make a new twitter, bc i saw a tweet that said if u change ur birthday on here to 2007 it makes the screen colour full & time, fully a spastic, actually did it & got locked out cos i’m not old enough to have twitter😭🙃
— 𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝓎 ♡ (@daislamont1) March 27, 2019
i read a tweet about changing your birthday on your account to 2007 for a cooler twitter. i did it and now i’m locked out of @leemulls13. @Twitter @TwitterSupport plz let me back into my account i’m 23 years old and i never made a twitter until i was in HIGH SCHOOL.
— lee (@leemulls013) March 26, 2019
i read a tweet about changing your birthday on your account to 2007 for a cooler twitter. i did it and now i’m locked out of @leemulls13. @Twitter @TwitterSupport plz let me back into my account i’m 23 years old and i never made a twitter until i was in HIGH SCHOOL.
— lee (@leemulls013) March 26, 2019
Keef got her Twitter deleted because she thought "if you change your birthday to 2007 you get cool colours on your feed"
— meg (@megangardner_) March 26, 2019
Twitter is still trying to aware the users:
If your account was locked after changing your Twitter birthday to 2007, please follow the instructions that were sent after the change was made to your account.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 26, 2019
