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| Twitter prevents people from spreading the word Memphis |
Twitter users found that tweeting in Memphis, a city in Tennessee, was enough to automatically block them for 12 hours and meet the terms of tweeting deletion.
According to the regulator, 600,000 people live in Memphis, violating Twitter's rules for posting personal information.
A Twitter spokesman confirmed that the ban was a mistake, and the company said in a statement: There is a problem in the system with accounts that tweeted the word "Memphis".
She added: The issue incorrectly prompted the account holder to delete these Tweets while temporarily restricting the account's functionality. The affected account has now been reset to its previous state and the issue has been resolved.
During this time, information about the ban was shared on social media via claims, and the word M was mentioned repeatedly as users answered questions about events in Memphis before receiving the ban immediately.
Twitter did not explain why Memphis was banned, but some users speculated that it was intended to prevent some users from divulging false personal information.
Company history negligence of mistakes that exceeded expectations. Twitter co-founder and CEO (Jack Dorsey) himself was temporarily banned from using the site in 2016 due to internal bugs.
In 2018, Dorsey apologized for unfairly liquidating 600,000 accounts from search results based on "the act of following their accounts."
Dorsey said at the time: We think it's unfair and it has been fixed.